Wilce, James M.

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.

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Sociolinguistics
Metaphor--Political aspects

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