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Why do some languages wither and die, while others prosper and spread? Around the turn of the millennium a number of archaeologists such as Colin Renfrew and Peter Bellwood made the controversial claim that many of the world?s major language families owe their dispersal to the adoption of agriculture by their early speakers. In this volume, their proposal is reassessed by linguists, investigating to what extent the economic dependence on plant cultivation really impacted language spread in various parts of the world. Special attention is paid to "tricky" language families such as Eskimo-Aleut, Quechua, Aymara, Bantu, Indo-European, Transeurasian, Turkic, Japano-Koreanic, Hmong-Mien and Trans-New Guinea, that cannot unequivocally be regarded as instances of farming/language dispersal, even if subsistence played a role in their expansion.

Native language --- Mother tongue --- Vernacular language --- Language and languages

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Linguists, applied linguists and language teachers all appeal to the native speaker as an important reference point. But what exactly (who exactly?) is the native speaker? This book examines the native speaker from different points of view, arguing that the native speaker is both myth and reality.

Native language. --- Applied linguistics. --- Linguistics --- Mother tongue --- Vernacular language --- Language and languages --- Sociolinguistics --- Psycholinguistics

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Linguistics --- Communication --- Native language --- Study and teaching --- -Mother tongue --- Vernacular language --- Language and languages --- Communication, Primitive --- Mass communication --- Sociology --- Communication. --- Study and teaching. --- -Study and teaching --- -Communication, Primitive --- Mother tongue --- Language and education --- Native language - Study and teaching

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Linguistics --- Europe --- Native language --- Mother tongue --- Vernacular language --- Language and languages --- Languages. --- Multilingualism --- Languages --- Taalkunde --- Europa --- Native language.

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"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 bounded and fixed to a homogeneous speech community and linked to a nation-state. Despite recent works that challenge its empirical accuracy and theoretical utility, the notion of the "native speaker" is still prevalent today. The Native Speaker Concept shifts the analytical focus from the second language acquisition processes and teaching practices to daily interactions situated in wider sociocultural and political contexts marked by increased global movements of people and multilingual situations. Using an ethnographic approach, the volume critically elucidates the political nature of (not) claiming the "native speaker" status in daily life and the ways the ideology of "native speaker" intersects and articulates, supports, subverts, or complicates various relations of dominance and regimes of standardization. The book offers cases from diverse settings, including classrooms in Japan, a coffee shop in Barcelona, secondary schools in South Africa, a backyard in Rapa Nui (Easter Island), restaurant kitchens, a high school administrator's office, a college classroom in the United States, and the Internet. It also offers a genealogy of the notion of the "native speaker" from the time of the Roman Empire. Employing linguistic, anthropological and educational theories, the volume speaks not only to the analyses of language use and language policy, planning, and teaching, but also to the investigation of wider effects of language ideology on relations of dominance, and institutional and discursive practices."--Publisher.

Multilingualism. --- Native language. --- Sociolinguistics. --- Native language --- Multilingualism --- Sociolinguistics --- Philology & Linguistics --- Languages & Literatures --- Language and languages --- Language and society --- Society and language --- Sociology of language --- Plurilingualism --- Polyglottism --- Mother tongue --- Vernacular language --- Social aspects --- Sociological aspects --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Sociology --- Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) --- multilingualism. --- linguistics. --- national language. --- mother tongue. --- sociology. --- Applied Linguistics. --- Language Competence. --- Language Policy.