Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- Part I: A discourse-historical approach to the English native speaker -- 2 The native speaker in contemporary linguistics -- 3 Identities, ideologies, and discourse: Toward a theoretical and methodological framework -- 4 The ideologies of Marsh (1859): A close reading -- Part II: "Good" English and the "best" speakers: The native speaker and standards of language, speech, and writing -- 5 Defining and delimiting "English" and "standard English" -- 6 The question of standard spoken English and the dialects -- 7 Spoken vs. written language and the native speaker -- Part III: Language, nation, and race: Of Anglo- Saxons and English speakers conquering the world -- 8 Nationalism, racism, and the native speaker -- 9 Anglo-Saxonism and the English native speaker -- 10 The language of the world: In praise of English -- 11 Conclusion -- References -- Author index -- Subject index