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Pre-order Releases Feb 23, 2027

Hardcover

Tender Grammars

by Serena Alagappan

$82.12 / copy at 25+ copies As low as $72.77 at 1,000+Your best volume price

226 pages Duke University Press ISBN 9781478034742
Tender Grammars book cover by Serena Alagappan
Ships on release · Feb 23 Releases Tuesday, February 23, 2027. Pre-order now: your copies ship on release and usually arrive around the release date.

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About the book

Tender Grammars

Tender Grammars is a collection of lyrical essays chronicling love across language barriers and cross-cultural exchange. Through intimate portraits and braided essays, Serena Alagappan tells the true stories of people who fell in love without speaking the same language or who learned a new language for love. Alagappan explores how couples navigate first phrases, missteps, and misunderstandings; how they search for belonging in each other’s families and cultures; and how language itself shapes who we become in love. Along the way, Alagappan considers what these relationships built across words and worlds can teach us about communication and connection. Blending insights from psychology, translation studies, linguistics, and anthropology with Alagappan’s own bicultural perspective, she reveals how learning another language can transform how we listen, express, and understand ourselves and the world around us.

Details

Publisher
Duke University Press
Author
Serena Alagappan
Format
Hardcover
Release date
Feb 23, 2027
ISBN-13
9781478034742
ISBN-10
1478034742
Pages
226

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