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...
| Uniform Title: | Cambria sinophone world series.
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| Language: | English |
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Amherst, New York :
Cambria Press,
[2014]
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| Series: | Cambria sinophone world series.
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| Local Note: |
MSU Stanley C. and Selma D. Hollander Faculty Book Collection |
| Physical Description: | xxx, 329 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Format: | Book |