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

By: Wilce, James MacLynnMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: New York: Oxford university press, 1998Description: 300pISBN: 0195106881Subject(s): Sociolinguistics | BangladeshDDC classification: 306.44095492
Contents:
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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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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