Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Setting the stage -- Chapter 1 Investigating "native speaker effects": Toward a new model of analyzing "native speaker" ideologies -- Chapter 2 Toward a "natural" history of the native (standard) speaker -- Part II. Nation-states' designs and people's actions -- Chapter 3 "Native speaker" status on border-crossing: The Okinawan Nikkei diaspora, national language, and heterogeneity -- Chapter 4 The localization of multicultural education and the reproduction of the "native speaker" concept in Japan -- Part III. Standardizing impulses and their subversions -- Chapter 5 Being "multilingual" in a SouthAfrican township: Functioning well with a patchwork of standardized and hybrid languages -- Chapter 6 Social class, linguistic normativity and the authority of the "native Catalan speaker" in Barcelona -- Chapter 7 Uncovering another "native speaker myth": Juxtaposing standardization processes in first and second languages of English-as-a-Second-Language learners -- Part IV. Revisiting "competence" -- Chapter 8 "We don't speak Maya, Spanish or English": Yucatec Maya-speaking transnationals in California and the social construction of competence -- Chapter 9 Rethinking the superiority of the native speaker: Toward a relational understanding of power -- Chapter 10 Heterogeneity in linguistic practice, competence and ideology: Language and community on Easter Island -- Chapter 11 Communication as an intersubjective and collaborative activity: When the native/non-native speaker's identity appears in computer-mediated communication -- Part V. Moving forward -- Chapter 12 Towards a critical orientation in second language education -- Backmatter