Definitions
A person who studies a subject in great detail, especially at a university, or someone who is very knowledgeable and learned in a specific academic field
What is a scholar?
This person in the story had her daughter speak to the stockbroker for her.
Who is Mrs. Tan?
What is Amy Tan reflecting on her mother speaking English?
Tan rejects the idea that there is only one correct, rigid form of English. She details how she uses different types of English—formal standard English for public speeches, simple English when clarity is needed, and her family's intimate, non-standard "family talk" with her mother and husband.
This novel was released by Amy Tan in 1989.
What is the Joy Luck Club?
To bring a feeling, memory, or image into the conscious mind.
What is the word "evoke?"
This person in the story is not a scholar of English or even literature.
Who is Amy Tan?
Amy Tan says growing up she felt ashamed of her mother speaking English.
What is Amy Tan's relationship with her mother and her English?
Tan argues that calling a non-native speaker's language "broken" is harmful and inaccurate. She demonstrates that her mother's internal thoughts, imagery, and understanding are deep and complex, even if her spoken grammar does not conform to standard rules.
What is challenging the myth of "broken" English?
This quote is quoted in paragraph 2 AND the introduction paragraph that is in italics.
What is, "I am a writer. And by that definition, I am someone who has always loved language"?
This word means something is shaped, created, or manufactured, usually by hard work or skill.
What is the word "wrought?"
This person did not realize any switch in Amy Tan's English.
Who is Amy Tan's husband?
Amy Tan being a teenager and speaking to the stockbroker.
What is Amy Tan having to translate to the stockbroker that Mrs. Tan was angry about the check not coming in?
Tan realized that her true artistic voice as a writer blossomed only when she stopped trying to impress academic critics and instead wrote with her mother in mind as her ideal reader
What is identity and art?
Born in 1952, and raised in Northern California.
Who is Amy Tan?
This word means to convert spoken words, audio, or other data into a written or typed text format.
What is the word "transcribed"?
Who is Amy Tan's former boss?
Amy Tan consistently got Bs all throughout her childhood academic career.
What is Amy Tan's rebellious childhood as an Asian-America first generation student?
Throughout “Mother Tongue,” Tan considers ways that prejudice is internalized, leading people to place limits on themselves.
Amy Tan says this aspect of her mother's speaking limited her __ of her.
What is perception?
This type of evidence is information gained through direct observation, measurement, or experimentation.
What is empirical evidence?
This person in the story is a political gangster from Shanghei and attended Mrs. Tan's wedding to pay his respects.
Who is Du Zong?
Amy Tan's mother said this after reading her book.
What is, "So easy to read?"
Amy Tan’s “Mother Tongue” challenges the limits of language as she documents the struggles she and her mother have faced as Chinese-American English speakers.
What is Asian-American voices in storytelling?
What is semantic opposites?