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Eloquence in trouble: the poetics and politics of complaint in rural Bangladesh/ James M. Wilce

By: Wilce, James MMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998Description: xix, 300 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN: 0195106881Subject(s): Sociolinguistics | Metaphor--Political aspectsDDC classification: 306.44095492

Contents:

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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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	306.44095492 WIL/E (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P03509

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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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