Tongue

Language is universal and can vary from place to place meaning that it’s translated in different ways. There is no right or wrong on how a person views language. In “Mother Tongue” the author explains the challenges her mother faced from speaking her English. These challenges included labels, assumptions, and limitations that immigrant families can relate to in an English speaking society. The author describes the position she was in when trying to describe her mother’s English, and not…

what she spoke was not Spanish. There was confliction from both sides of her, so she needed to find something that identified herself. In the passage “How to tame a Wild Tongue”, Anzaldua lionizes, “I will no longer be made to feel ashamed of existing. I will have my voice: Indian, Spanish, white. I will have my serpent’s tongue – my woman’s voice, my poet’s voice. I will overcome the tradition of silence.” (40). Not only is her culture slowly being taken away from her through her She realizes…

Unfortunately, for people who do speak broken English, this can be a huge barrier living in America. Also, the world is sometimes unaware of how hard it can be for immigrants and children of immigrants because of this barrier. Amy Tan, the author of “mother tongue” expresses what she learned growing up in a home where broken was spoken. She learned about how she spoke different to different people in her life, how people reacted to her mom’s broken English, and how this has affected her life…

Identity found through language in “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan Many people in this world do not understand the power of language. Language is much more than just a way of communication. In America, language is a key aspect in how others see you and what they think of you. People make assumptions about others from their appearance, from their actions, from the way they speak and also from what they speak of. Many people who speak proper English do not understand how much of an advantage they…

Languages of the world 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 the entire world to use. Do you think that is a bad thing? Mcwhorter doesn’t, he feels that it is a natural progression…

In the piece, “Mother Tongue”written by Amy Tan, Tan made the example with her mother and the hospital to prove to the readers that those who cannot speak perfect, or fluent English will be often disregarded or not equally treated compared to those who speak English well. When Tan described the example with the stockbroker, she wanted the audience to realize how her mother couldn’t get around in California properly with, for lack of a better word, broken English. She also described the feeling…

In the story mother tongue, the author explains the different types of English’s that are used in the story and the author names them limited, simple, and broken English. Therefore to explain the meaning of the various English’s, I would say that “simple” is just the meaning of proper English with good grammar or the English she usually uses when she is working as a writer. For an example when the author states her use of simple or perfect English in the text of the story. “And then I said in…

Language is supposed to be a tool that expresses ethnicity and culture, however people have turned language into a principle that forces people to speak that language if they want to be treated equal. Amy Tan proves this claim in her text “Mother Tongue” when she says “My mother had gone to the hospital for an appointment, to find out about a benign brain tumor a CAT scan had revealed a month ago. She said she had spoken very good English, her best English, no mistakes. Still, she said, the…

Westcott, and Mervyn Griffiths (2005) published an article titled “Randomized, controlled trial of division of tongue tie in infants with feeding problems”, where they explored a technique would best help babies affected by tongue-tie (Ankyloglossia). This research study compared the effect of the 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 or…

however the human voice is something worth paying attention to. Some people have different voices that they use for different environments, while others have one main voice they use to communicate with people in their surroundings. In “Speaking in Tongues”, Zadie Smith explains the up and downsides of speaking with more than one voice, as it can either provide flexibility for things in life or come off as unauthentic for the speaker. Having many different voices can be a result of imitating…