Tongue

In the short story Mother Tongue by Amy Tan, the author says that because of her mother’s imperfect English skills, the “people in department stores, banks, and at restaurants did not take her seriously, did not give her good service, pretended not to understand her, or even acted…

In "Mother Tongue," Amy Tan discusses a recent discovery about the variations of the English language she has experienced. Throughout, she compares the English she uses when speaking with her mother to the English she had acquired in school. As a result, Tan describes her ability to shift from one dialect to the other. While Tan states that she does not often detect the differences while speaking, she has become aware of them in recent years. Her recollection of her childhood perception of the…

Identifying tongue tied infants Ankyloglossia, or commonly referred to as a "tongue tie", is a condition seen in newborns when the lingual frenulum (the connecting membrane that supports the tongue) is short. The act of cutting the frenulum is called a lingual frenectomy. Two types of frenectomies exist. There are labial frenectomies (membrane is attached toward the lips) and lingual frenectomies (membrane is attached at the tongue). A labial frenectomy is performed when the frenum pulls on the…

to assimilate towards the mainstream American society and in return, will receive equal treatment. In regards to the diversity of America, we appreciate when someone can “speak in tongues” (Smith 252). Zadie Smith, author of “Speaking in Tongues,” writes about the benefits of being able to talk in many different tongues to speak for the entirety of people, even if they are not of the same kind of people. On the other hand, however, Kenji Yoshino, author of “Covering: The…

Mervyn Griffiths (2005) published an article called “Randomized, controlled trial of division of tongue tie in infants with feeding problems” where they tried to discover technique would best help mothers and babies who are affected by tongue-tie (Ankyloglossia). This research study compared the effect of immediate division against the use of lactation support (a conventional approach) in infants with tongue-tie and feeding problems. Authors’ assumption was that immediate division would improve…

People who are conscious of their indigenous identity are keen to incorporate aspects of their mother tongue in common languages. However, not all individuals feel proud of expressing their forms of synthesized language. The relationship between cultural identity and language is mutual. Amy Tan’s “Mother Tongue” and Anzaldua Gloria “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” are exquisite examples of the formation of language and cultural identities due to interactions with American culture. A comparative…

that we all live in the same country, but we all differ in the language we speak and our culture. Text such as The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang, “Studying Islam” by Peter Berkowitz and Michael McFaul, and “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan, explore the idea that language and culture shape and give individuals their identity. No two…

a) In the late 1960s, Singapore government introduced a bilingual education policy. Mother Tongue languages such as Mandarin, Malay and Tamil are known to be the students’ second language in Singapore. It is mandatory for each student to take up at least one second language. However according to an online news "Much Ado About Mother Tongue", students have not been coping well with their Mother Tongue language over the past years. Instead, the students are excelling in other subjects such as…

What if the entire world spoke one language? What would that language be? In John McWhorters writing the Cosmopolitan Tongue he talks about how languages are dying and it’s not necessarily a bad thing. He claims that by 2109 ninety percent of the world’s languages will be dead. That would take us from the current 6000 languages down 600 languages for all of the world. Do you think that is a bad thing? Mcwhorter doesn’t, he feels that it is a natural progression caused by people of smaller…

many people to learn the english language. In the poem “Parents”, and the two stories “Mother Tongue” and , the parents often struggle to learn the english language.…