Publications

Publication details [#11869]

Rajagopalan, Kanavillil. 1997. Linguistics and the Myth of Nativity: Comments on the Controversy over 'New/Non-Native Englishes'. Journal of Pragmatics 27 (2) : 225–231. 7 pp.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

ideology | nativism

Language as a subject

English

Person as a subject

Afendras, E.A. | Singh, R.

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

The author states that ideological agendas may explain the focus on the category of the native speaker in this ongoing debate, and that the concept of pure identity is outdated.