Eloquence in trouble: the poetics and politics of complaint in rural Bangladesh/ James M Wilce
Material type: TextPublication details: New York: Oxford university press, 1998Description: 300pISBN: 0195106881Subject(s): Sociolinguistics | BangladeshDDC classification: 306.44095492Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Books | Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section | 306.44095492 WIL/E (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | P17829 |
Transcription Conventions --
Cast of Key Characters Presented --
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 --
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