Alienglish: Eastern Diasporas in Anglo-American Tongues

by 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 language, and nonstandard contextual references-an uncanny, off-kilter language best described as Alienglish.Either an alien's English that estranges or an...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1604978686
• ISBN13: 9781604978681
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Cambria Press
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"