Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: The changing face of the "native speaker" -- Part one: Conceptual discussions -- Chapter 1 Why the mythical "native speaker" has mud on its face -- Chapter 2 The multilingual and multicompetent native speaker -- Chapter 3 New speakers: New linguistic subjects -- Part two: Practices and representations -- Chapter 4 Is there a native speaker in the class? A didactic view of a problematic notion -- Chapter 5 On the paradox of being native speakers of two "competing" languages: Turkish as the mother or the father tongue of Greek nationals -- Chapter 6 What kind of speakers are these? Placing heritage speakers of Russian on a continuum -- Chapter 7 The out-of-sight of "native speaker": A critical journey through models of social representations of plurilingual identities -- Chapter 8 Practice-proof concepts? Rethinking linguistic borders and families in multilingual communication: Exploiting the relationship between intercomprehension and translanguaging -- Part three: Policies and controversies -- Chapter 9 Provenance and possession: Rethinking the mother tongue -- Chapter 10 The pluricentricity and ownership of English -- Chapter 11 "I want to be bilingual!" Contested imaginings of bilingualism in New Brunswick, Canada -- Chapter 12 Questioning the questions: Institutional and individual perspectives on children's language repertoires -- Afterword -- Index