Title The emergence of the English native speaker : a chapter in nineteenth-century linguistic thought / Stephanie Hackert

Published Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (text (x, 306 pages)) Series Language and Social Processes [LSP] ; v. 4 Language and Social Processes LSP Contents Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; Part I: A discourse-historical approach to the English native speaker; 2 The native speaker in contemporary linguistics; 2.1 So what is the problem with the native speaker?; 2.2 Defining the native speaker; 2.3 The native speaker in the World Englishes context; 2.3.1 Modeling World Englishes; 2.3.2 The ownership question: Whose English is it?; 2.4 Approaches to the native speaker: Features or historical construct?; 2.5 The birth of the English native speaker; 3 Identities, ideologies, and discourse: Toward a theoretical and methodological framework 3.1 Linguistic identities and ideologies3.2 Discourse as a scientific object; 3.3 Discourse as a linguistic object; 3.3.1 Linguistic approaches to discourse I: Historical discourse analysis; 3.3.2 Digression: Late-nineteenth century intertextuality and the notion of the discourse community; 3.3.3 Linguistic approaches to discourse II: Critical Discourse Analysis; 3.4 The corpus; 3.4.1 Socio- and linguistic-historical background; 3.4.2 Constitution of the corpus; 3.4.3 A note on quoted material; 4 The ideologies of Marsh (1859): A close reading; 4.1 The introduction 4.2 Of native speakers, native languages, and native philology4.3 Names for English and its speakers; 4.4 Summary; Part II : "Good" English and the "best" speakers: The native speaker and standards of language, speech, and writing; 5 Defining and delimiting "English" and "standard English"; 5.1 The native speaker and the standard language in the World Englishes context; 5.2 Defining a language: Stability and staticity as theoretical and methodological necessities of nineteenth- and twentieth-century linguistics 5.2.1 Nineteenth-century attempts at solving the problem of linguistic heterogeneity5.2.2 The "imagination" of standard English through the OED; 6 The question of standard spoken English and the dialects; 6.1 From written to spoken standards for English; 6.1.1 Standard spoken English: Where is it to be found?; 6.1.2 English = standard English; 6.1.3 Standard English = educated English; 6.1.4 Educated speakers are the "best" speakers; 6.1.5 Can we not define the standard linguistically?; 6.1.6 "Educated" = public-school educated; 6.1.7 Of "natural" educated speakers "to the language born." 6.1.8 Educated English = a level of excellence which need not be homogenous in reality6.1.9 Colloquial English and the naturalness problem; 6.2 The standard and the dialects; 6.2.1 Whence the new interest in the dialects?; 6.2.2 The status of the dialects vis-à-vis the standard language; 6.2.3 The dialects' contribution to the historicization of the standard language: "Primitive" forms and "Anglo-Saxon" words; 6.2.4 Preservation of the dialects: "Antique curiosities" or actual means of communication?; 6.2.5 "Genuine" dialect and "authentic" speakers: The emergence of the NORM Summary The 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 Bibliography Met lit. opg. en reg Subject English language -- 19th century -- Usage English language -- 19th century -- Variation English language -- 19th century -- Social aspects English language -- English-speaking countries Historical linguistics. historical linguistics. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General. English language English language -- Social aspects English language -- Usage English language -- Variation Historical linguistics Moedertaalsprekers. Engels. English-speaking countries Form Electronic book Author Hackert, Stephanie ISBN 9781614511052 1614511055 9781614511403 1614511403

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