Native Speaker

Author : Chang-rae Lee
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1996-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101660034

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The debut novel from critically-acclaimed and New York Times–bestselling author of On Such a Full Sea and My Year Abroad. In Native Speaker, author Chang-rae Lee introduces readers to Henry Park. Park has spent his entire life trying to become a true American—a native speaker. But even as the essence of his adopted country continues to elude him, his Korean heritage seems to drift further and further away. Park's harsh Korean upbringing has taught him to hide his emotions, to remember everything he learns, and most of all to feel an overwhelming sense of alienation. In other words, it has shaped him as a natural spy. But the very attributes that help him to excel in his profession put a strain on his marriage to his American wife and stand in the way of his coming to terms with his young son's death. When he is assigned to spy on a rising Korean-American politician, his very identity is tested, and he must figure out who he is amid not only the conflicts within himself but also within the ethnic and political tensions of the New York City streets. Native Speaker is a story of cultural alienation. It is about fathers and sons, about the desire to connect with the world rather than stand apart from it, about loyalty and betrayal, about the alien in all of us and who we finally are.

Author : Rey Chow
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780231522717

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Not Like a Native Speaker by Rey Chow Pdf

Although the era of European colonialism has long passed, misgivings about the inequality of the encounters between European and non-European languages persist in many parts of the postcolonial world. This unfinished state of affairs, this lingering historical experience of being caught among unequal languages, is the subject of Rey Chow's book. A diverse group of personae, never before assembled in a similar manner, make their appearances in the various chapters: the young mulatto happening upon a photograph about skin color in a popular magazine; the man from Martinique hearing himself named "Negro" in public in France; call center agents in India trained to Americanize their accents while speaking with customers; the Algerian Jewish philosopher reflecting on his relation to the French language; African intellectuals debating the pros and cons of using English for purposes of creative writing; the translator acting by turns as a traitor and as a mourner in the course of cross-cultural exchange; Cantonese-speaking writers of Chinese contemplating the politics of food consumption; radio drama workers straddling the forms of traditional storytelling and mediatized sound broadcast. In these riveting scenes of speaking and writing imbricated with race, pigmentation, and class demarcations, Chow suggests, postcolonial languaging becomes, de facto, an order of biopolitics. The native speaker, the fulcrum figure often accorded a transcendent status, is realigned here as the repository of illusory linguistic origins and unities. By inserting British and post-British Hong Kong (the city where she grew up) into the languaging controversies that tend to be pursued in Francophone (and occasionally Anglophone) deliberations, and by sketching the fraught situations faced by those coping with the specifics of using Chinese while negotiating with English, Chow not only redefines the geopolitical boundaries of postcolonial inquiry but also demonstrates how such inquiry must articulate historical experience to the habits, practices, affects, and imaginaries based in sounds and scripts.

Author : Nikolay Slavkov,Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer,Nadja Kerschhofer-Puhalo
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501512353

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The Changing Face of the “Native Speaker” by Nikolay Slavkov,Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer,Nadja Kerschhofer-Puhalo Pdf

The notion of the native speaker and its undertones of ultimate language competence, language ownership and social status has been problematized by various researchers, arguing that the ensuing monolingual norms and assumptions are flawed or inequitable in a global super-diverse world. However, such norms are still ubiquitous in educational, institutional and social settings, in political structures and in research paradigms. This collection offers voices from various contexts and corners of the world and further challenges the native speaker construct adopting poststructuralist and postcolonial perspectives. It includes conceptual, methodological, educational and practice-oriented contributions. Topics span language minorities, intercomprehension, plurilingualism and pluriculturalism, translanguaging, teacher education, new speakers, language background profiling, heritage languages, and learner identity, among others. Collectively, the authors paint the portrait of the "changing face of the native speaker" while also strengthening a new global agenda in multilingualism and social justice. These diverse and interconnected contributions are meant to inspire researchers, university students, educators, policy makers and beyond.

Author : Neriko Musha Doerr
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110220940

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The Native Speaker Concept by Neriko Musha Doerr Pdf

Presents a fresh look at the 'native speaker' by situating him/her in wider sociopolitical contexts. Using anthropological frameworks and ethnographic data from around the world, this book addresses the questions of who qualifies as a 'native speaker' and his/her social relations in the regime of standardization in multilingual situations.

Author : Stephanie Hackert
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781614511052

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The Emergence of the English Native Speaker by Stephanie Hackert Pdf

The native speaker is one of the central but at the same time most controversial concepts of modern linguistics. With regard to English, it became especially controversial with the rise of the so-called "New Englishes," where reality is much more complex than the neat distinction into native and non-native speakers would make us believe. This volume reconstructs the coming-into-being of the English native speaker in the second half of the nineteenth century in order to probe into the origins of the problems surrounding the concept today. A corpus of texts which includes not only the classics of the nineteenth-century linguistic literature but also numerous lesser-known articles from periodical journals of the time is investigated by means of historical discourse analysis in order to retrace the production and reproduction of this particularly important linguistic ideology.

Author : Alan Davies
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1853596221

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The Native Speaker by Alan Davies Pdf

Linguists, applied linguists and language teachers all appeal to the native speaker as an important reference point. But what exactly (who exactly?) is the native speaker? This book examines the native speaker from different points of view, arguing that the native speaker is both myth and reality.

Author : Alan Davies
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521119276

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Native Speakers and Native Users by Alan Davies Pdf

'Native speakers' and 'native users' are playing the same game, sharing, as they do, the model of the Standard Language.

Author : Florian Coulmas
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110822878

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A Festschrift for Native Speaker by Florian Coulmas Pdf

Author : Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes,Cristina Suarez-Gomez,Mila Vulchanova,Antonella Sorace,Valentin Vulchanov
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889749652

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The Notion of the Native Speaker Put to the Test: Recent Research Advances by Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes,Cristina Suarez-Gomez,Mila Vulchanova,Antonella Sorace,Valentin Vulchanov Pdf

Author : Thomas M. Paikeday,Noam Chomsky
Publisher : Mississauga, Ont. : Paikeday Pub.
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Language acquisition
ISBN : UOM:39015012063908

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The Native Speaker is Dead! by Thomas M. Paikeday,Noam Chomsky Pdf

Author : Gunilla M. Anderman,Margaret Rogers
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1853596183

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Translation Today by Gunilla M. Anderman,Margaret Rogers Pdf

This text provides a snapshot of issues reflecting the changing nature of translation studies at the beginning of a new millennium. Resulting from discussions between translation theorists from all over the world, topics covered include: the nature of translation; English as a "lingua franca"; public service translation and interpreting; assessment; and audio-visual translation. The first part of the work covers a discussion stimulated by Peter Newmark's paper, and the second part allows invited colleagues to develop his topics.

Author : Thomas Paul Bonfiglio
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781934078266

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Mother Tongues and Nations by Thomas Paul Bonfiglio Pdf

This monograph examines the ideological legacy of the the apparently innocent kinship metaphors of “mother tongue” and “native speaker” by historicizing their linguistic development. It shows how the early nation states constructed the ideology of ethnolinguistic nationalism, a composite of national language, identity, geography, and race. This ideology invented myths of congenital communities that configured the national language in a symbiotic matrix between body and physical environment and as the ethnic and corporeal ownership of national identity and local organic nature. These ethno-nationalist gestures informed the philology of the early modern era and generated arboreal and genealogical models of language, culminating most divisively in the race conscious discourse of the Indo-European hypothesis of the 19th century. The philosophical theories of organicism also contributed to these ideologies. The fundamentally nationalist conflation of race and language was and is the catalyst for subsequent permutations of ethnolinguistic discrimination, which continue today. Scholarship should scrutinize the tendency to overextend biological metaphors in the study of language, as these can encourage, however surreptitiously, genetic and racial impressions of language.

Author : Vivian Cook
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1853596329

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Effects of the Second Language on the First by Vivian Cook Pdf

This study examines changes in the first language of people who know a second language. It presents theories and research that investigate the first language of second language users from a variety of perspectives including vocabulary, pragmatics, cognition and syntax.

Author : Christian Müller
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08-14
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540741862

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Speaker Classification I by Christian Müller Pdf

This volume and its companion volume LNAI 4441 constitute a state-of-the-art survey in the field of speaker classification. Together they address such intriguing issues as how speaker characteristics are manifested in voice and speaking behavior. The nineteen contributions in this volume are organized into topical sections covering fundamentals, characteristics, applications, methods, and evaluation.

Author : George Braine
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135461867

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Non-native Educators in English Language Teaching by George Braine Pdf

The place of native and non-native speakers in the role of English teachers has probably been an issue ever since English was taught internationally. Although ESL and EFL literature is awash, in fact dependent upon, the scrutiny of non-native learners, interest in non-native academics and teachers is fairly new. Until recently, the voices of non-native speakers articulating their own concerns have been even rarer. This book is a response to this notable vacuum in the ELT literature, providing a forum for language educators from diverse geographical origins and language backgrounds. In addition to presenting autobiographical narratives, these authors argue sociopolitical issues and discuss implications for teacher education, all relating to the theme of non-native educators in ETL. All of the authors are non-native speakers of English. Some are long established professionals, whereas others are more recent initiates to the field. All but one received part of the higher education in North America, and all except two of the chapters are at least partially contextualized in North America. Particularly relevant for non-native speakers who aspire to enter the profession, graduate students in TESOL programs, and teacher educators, the unique nature of this book's contributors and its contents will interest researchers and professionals in applied linguistics generally and in ELT, and all those who are concerned with the role of non-native speakers in English-language teaching.