The Emergence of the English Native Speaker A Chapter in Nineteenth-Century Linguistic Thought |
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| Author:
| Hackert, Stephanie |
| Series title: | Language and Social Processes [LSP] Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-61451-106-9 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2013 |
| Publisher: | Mouton De Gruyter
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| Book Format: | Mixed media product |
| List Price: | USD $210.00 |
Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionThe 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.