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About Mother Tongue "It is a great beauty of a book, and I am so proud of you for standing with and for the disappeared.

A sister, a lover, a witness. This summary of Mother Tongue includes a complete plot overview — spoilers included. Paperback If English is your mother tongue, this book will amaze and amuse you with interesting tidbits about just how our language evolved into the wonder it is. The main idea of Amy Tan's "Mother Tongue" is the limitations that imperfect English can impose in society and the richness that such English can bring to writing.

Tan elaborates this idea by scrutinizing her mother's language, her own use of English and society's. This remarkable book of new poetry weaves beautifully crafted and intuitive meditations on absences and loss, with personal, local and cultural presence and memories. The poems awaken transformative interconnections between literature, ecology, civilization, history and individual study.

Amy Tan born February 19, is an American writer whose works explore mother-daughter relationships and the Chinese-American experience. This study guide contains the following sections. Tan, Amy. Also called a first language, dominant language, home language, and native tongue although these terms are not necessarily synonymous.

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EMBED for wordpress. Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! Includes bibliographical references Published by arrangement with William Morrow and Company, Inc The world's language -- The dawn of language -- Global language -- The first thousand years -- Where words come from -- Pronunciation -- Varieties of English -- Spelling -- Good English and bad -- Order out of chaos -- Old world, new world -- English as a world language -- Names -- Swearing -- Wordplay -- The future of English.