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Eloquence in Trouble : The Poetics and Politics of Complaint in Rural Bangladesh.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics SeriesPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 1998Copyright date: ©1998Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (321 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780195355444
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Eloquence in TroubleDDC classification:
  • 306.44
LOC classification:
  • P40.45.B3W55 1998
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- 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 -- Appendix: Transcribing Matlab Speech -- Notes -- References -- Index and Glossary -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y.
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Intro -- 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 -- Appendix: Transcribing Matlab Speech -- Notes -- References -- Index and Glossary -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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