ISBN:
1282384244
,
9781282384248
,
9780195355444
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xix, 300 p)
,
Ill.
Series Statement:
Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics 21
Series Statement:
Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics Ser v.21
Parallel Title:
Print version Wilce, James M Eloquence in Trouble : The Poetics and Politics of Complaint in Rural Bangladesh
DDC:
306.44/0954/92
Keywords:
Sociolinguistics
;
Sociolinguistics ; Bangladesh
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-292) and index
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