mother tongue(amy tan)的翻译（母语（谭恩美）的翻译）.doc

mother tongue(amy tan)的翻译（母语（谭恩美）的翻译） Im a writer. As the name suggests, Im the kind of person who has always loved language. Im fascinated by the language of everyday life. I spend a lot of time thinking about the power of language - how it evokes emotions, depicts visual images, expounds complex ideas, or demonstrates simple facts. Language is my means of livelihood. I use all the English - the various kinds of English Ive met during my growing up. Recently, (something) has made me keenly aware that I am indeed using a wide variety of english. I was speaking to a large group of people who had made six speeches to other audiences. The nature of the talk was about my writing, my life and my book the Joy Luck Club. The speech went well until I remembered that the speech was a big difference from the previous speech, which made the whole speech sound wrong. My mother is in the lecture hall. It was perhaps the first time she had ever heard me speak long, using the kind of English that I had never used in front of her The speech was full of elaborate, grammatical phrases, a mass of nominalization, past perfect tense, conditional phrases (which I seem to have suddenly discovered). All the standard language structures Ive learned in school and in books are not the English forms I use when talking to my mother at home. Just last week, when I was walking down the street with my mother, I found myself noticing my English again, the English I spoke with my mother. We were talking about the price of new and old furniture, and I heard myself saying, dont waste money like that.. (Not, waste, money, that, way.) My husband was with us too, and he didnt notice my English changes. Then I thought why. This is because when we stay together morning and night for 20 years, I often say this in English in front of him, and sometimes he also use the English to talk with me. This has become our personal language, a special English spoken only with the family, a language that grew with me. Y