TY - BOOK AU - Wilce, James MacLynn, TI - Eloquence in trouble: the poetics and politics of complaint in rural Bangladesh SN - 0195106881 U1 - 306.44095492 PY - 1998/// CY - New York PB - Oxford university press KW - Sociolinguistics KW - Bangladesh N1 - 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 -- ER -