Presents a fresh look at the 'native speaker' by situating him/her in wider sociopolitical contexts. Using anthropological frameworks and ethnographic data from

The "native speaker" is often thought of as an ideal language user with "a complete and possibly innate competence in the language" which is perceived as being

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 co

Although the era of European colonialism has long passed, misgivings about the inequality of the encounters between European and non-European languages persist