Eloquence in trouble: the poetics and politics of complaint in rural Bangladesh/
James M. Wilce
- Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
- xix, 300 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
1. Troubling Ourselves with Bangla Troubles Talk-- 2. Listening in Matlab: Where Troubles Talk Led Me-- 3. Signs and Selfhood-- 4. Personhood: The 'I' in the Complaint-- 5. Self and Indexicals: Language and Locus of Control-- 6. Learning to Tell Troubles: Socialization of Crying and Troubles Telling-- 7. Icons and Icon Indexes: Complaint Practices and Local Views-- 8. Troubles Talk and Social Conflict-- 9. Interacting with Practitioners-- 10. Metacomplaints: Conflict, Resistance, and Metacommunication-- 11. The Pragmatics of Madness: Performance and Resistance-- 12. Legitimacy, Illegitimacy, and Madness in Bangladesh-- 13. Troubles Talk and Its Troubling (and Troubled) Eloquence.