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Donna Spears
ENGL 112-51
Fall 2015 Summary/ Amy Tan "Mother Tongue"
What rhetorical strategies are used in the essay to depict the notion of time?
In Amy Tan’s essay titled "Mother Tongue" the specific general point is the limitations that imperfect English can impose in society and the richness that such English can bring to writing. Tan give details that this idea by analyzing her mother's language, her own use of English and society's response to unlike people's English usage. Describes both the nonstandard English that Tan's mother, a Chinese immigrant, uses and the native speaker's English, the "mother tongue," in which Tan herself is fluent. She opens the essay by considering her own public English, which tends to the formal and
Donna Spears
ENGL 112-51
Fall 2015 Summary/ Amy Tan "Mother Tongue"
What rhetorical strategies are used in the essay to depict the notion of time?
In Amy Tan’s essay titled "Mother Tongue" the specific general point is the limitations that imperfect English can impose in society and the richness that such English can bring to writing. Tan give details that this idea by analyzing her mother's language, her own use of English and society's response to unlike people's English usage. Describes both the nonstandard English that Tan's mother, a Chinese immigrant, uses and the native speaker's English, the "mother tongue," in which Tan herself is fluent. She opens the essay by considering her own public English, which tends to the formal and