2. I heard myself saying this: "Not waste money that way." My husband was with us as well, and he didn't notice any switch in my English.
3. I spend a great deal of my time thinking about the power of language--the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth.
4. And it was perhaps the first time she had heard me give a lengthy speech, using the kind of English I have never used with her.
In her book “ Mother Tongue “ Amy Tan describes how she used a different English for different situations. When she spoke to her mother or her friends or at school, her English differed. In the 1st excerpt the bias is expressed that speaking English differently, is bad English.
Question: Select the excerpt from "Mother Tongue" by Amy Tan that best describes language bias.
Answer: 1. I've heard other terms used, "limited English," for example. But they seem just as bad, as if everything is limited, including people's perceptions of the limited-English speaker.
Frame narrative also known as frame story or frame tale, is a narrative technique wherein a main story is composed, at least in part to organize a set of shorter stories (a story within a story). The Book of One Thousand and One Nights is an example of the story, whereby, the character Shahrazad narrates a set of fairy tales to the chieftain, Sultan Shahriyar over many nights.