Alienglish : Eastern diasporas in Anglo-American tongues / Sheng-mei Ma.

English has long emerged as the lingua franca of globalization but has been somehow estranged in the hands or mouths of aliens, from Joseph Conrad to Chang-rae Lee. Haltingly, their alien characters come to speak in the Anglo-American tongue, yet what emerges is skewed by accents, syntax, body langu...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:	Cambria sinophone world series.
Main Author:	Ma, Sheng-mei
Language:	English
Published:	Amherst, New York : Cambria Press, [2014]
Series:	Cambria sinophone world series.
Subjects:	English language > Study and teaching > Foreign speakers > Asian. Asian Americans > Languages. Asian Americans > Ethnic identity. Asians > Foreign countries.
Local Note:	MSU Stanley C. and Selma D. Hollander Faculty Book Collection
Physical Description:	xxx, 329 pages ; 24 cm.
Format:	Book

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