On mother and other tongues: The notion of possession of a language
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Auteurs : Eirlys Davies [États-Unis] ; Abdelâli Bentahila [États-Unis]Source :
- Lingua [ 0024-3841 ] ; 1989.
Abstract
This paper explores the factors which may lead multilinguals to regard one of the languages they know as special to them, as when they feel able to describe a particular language as their own. It examines the varying and often conflicting and confusing ways in which the term own language and some other familiar labels such as mother tongue, native language and first language have been used by laymen and specialists, and distinguishes a number of aspects of the relationship between an individual and a language which have been assumed to make it special. While discussions using such labels often imply that all these special qualities are usually combined in the same language, the paper presents data obtained from Moroccan informants of a number of different language backgrounds which suggest that this is certainly not necessarily the case. The language an individual considers to be his or her own is not always that which the objective outsider would predict; it need not be the language first learnt, that used in the home or with parents, that best known, or even one known at all. It is argued that overgeneralisations about the primacy of the mother tongue or the symbolic value of the native language may be dangerously misleading, for each individual may perceive the languages he or she knows in a unique way. It is oversimplistic to assume that there is any single condition whose fulfilment will always predict which language a multilingual will regard as his or her own.
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