Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. Setting the stage
5. Chapter 1 Investigating “native speaker effects”: Toward a new model of analyzing “native speaker” ideologies 11
6. Chapter 2 Toward a “natural” history of the native (standard) speaker 47
7. Part II. Nation-states’ designs and people’s actions
8. Chapter 3 “Native speaker” status on border-crossing: The Okinawan Nikkei diaspora, national language, and heterogeneity 79
9. Chapter 4 The localization of multicultural education and the reproduction of the “native speaker” concept in Japan 101
10. Part III. Standardizing impulses and their subversions
11. Chapter 5 Being “multilingual” in a SouthAfrican township: Functioning well with a patchwork of standardized and hybrid languages 133
12. Chapter 6 Social class, linguistic normativity and the authority of the “native Catalan speaker” in Barcelona 161
13. Chapter 7 Uncovering another “native speaker myth”: Juxtaposing standardization processes in first and second languages of English-as-a-Second-Language learners 185
14. Part IV. Revisiting “competence”
15. Chapter 8 “We don’t speak Maya, Spanish or English”: Yucatec Maya-speaking transnationals in California and the social construction of competence 209
16. Chapter 9 Rethinking the superiority of the native speaker: Toward a relational understanding of power 233
17. Chapter 10 Heterogeneity in linguistic practice, competence and ideology: Language and community on Easter Island 249
18. Chapter 11 Communication as an intersubjective and collaborative activity: When the native/non-native speaker’s identity appears in computer-mediated communication 277
19. Part V. Moving forward
20. Chapter 12 Towards a critical orientation in second language education 295
21. Backmatter 319