Question

Read this dialog from Amy Tan's "Mother Tongue":

"Du Yusong having business like fruit stand. Like off the street kind. He is Du like Du Zong-- but not Tsung-ming Island people. The local people call putong, the river east side, he belong to that side local people. That man want to ask Du Zong father take him in like become own family. Du Zong father wasn't look down on him, but didn't take seriously, until that man big like become a mafia. Now important person, very hard to inviting him. Chinese way, came only to show respect, don't stay for dinner. Respect for making big celebration, he shows up. Mean gives lots of respect. Chinese custom. Chinese social life that way. If too important won't have to stay too long. He come to my wedding. I didn't see. I heard it. I gone to boy's side, they have YMCA dinner. Chinese age I was nineteen."

What does the language in this excerpt reveal about the speaker?

Answer 1

It reveals that the speaker’s mother tongue is not English and that his mastery of English is very substandard. The verbal conjugations present several mistakes, such as lack of differentiation of singular and plural conjugation, incorrect or missing use of appropriate verbal tenses (simple past tense), incorrect use of auxiliary verbs, incorrect use of gerunds and infinitives. The sentence construction is also deficient, discourse is plagued by fragments and lack of grammatical subjects.

Answer 2

Answer:

The speaker uses expressive, if somewhat incorrect, English

Explanation:

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