Displacing the 'native speaker': expertise, affiliation, and inheritance

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  • MRM. B. H. Rampton
    M. B. H. Rampton
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Abstract
The concepts native speaker and mother tongue are often criticized, but they continue in circulation in the absence of alternatives. This article suggests some. The terms language expertise, language inheritance, and language affiliation sort out some of the mystification, and they allow us to place educational questions of language ability and language loyalty alongside a broader view of society.1