Year: 2010
Type: article
Abstract: A number of writers (Singh et al.,1995; Rajagopalan, 1997) have arguedconvincingly that the notion ‘native speaker’ can be racist and exclusive,bestowing privilege and power based on the accident of nativity in a specificlocale. I argue that the concept is still useful in the field of applied linguists andlanguage studies provided that researchers clarify the ambiguity of the term.I propose following typology for clarification of the concept: the (a) ‘age ofacquisition native’, (b) ‘loyalty native’, (c) ‘objective-proficiency native’ (d)the Chomskyan ‘ideal native speaker’, (e) ‘blood native’ and (f) the ‘historicalantecedence-native’.
Source: Signótica
Author: John Robert Schmitz
Language: Portuguese
Subfield: Linguistics and Language
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2028981792