出版物 ｜Sophia Linguistica
Shoei Nakaie
This study examined the native speaker language ideologies of a heritage language
speaker through the life story of Minji, a second-generation immigrant. Minji overcame
her perception of “Speaker Legitimacy” towards her mother’s Japanese (as a Korean
immigrant) and her host mother’s English (as a Hong Kong immigrant in New Zealand)
through her experience of heritage language learning and broke free from the native
speaker’s language ideology. However, to resist the Japanese identity imposed on her
by Koreans, Minji aspired to acquire a high level of proficiency in Korean, the heritage
language. In this way, Minji did not overcome Speaker Legitimacy. From this, the
following two points became clear. The first point is that L2 learning can potentially
be the key to overcoming native speaker language ideologies. The second point is that
heritage language speakers’ pursuit of becoming a “Legitimate language speaker” can
be an expression of identity. The results emphasize that language ideology held by
heritage language speakers about native speakers can also arise between first- and secondgeneration
immigrant parents and their children, and that L2 learning has the potential to
help people overcome their language ideology about native speakers.
