Eloquence in Trouble - The Poetics and Politics of Complaint in Rural Bangladesh

Zusatztext The drama (and melodrama) of rural Bangladeshi life are evoked here with considerable sensitivity to how intensly rural society is bound up with social performance. Klappentext Eloquence in Trouble captures the articulation of several troubled lives in Bangladesh as well as the threats to the very genres of their expression! lament in particular. The first ethnography of one of the most spoken mother tongues on earth! Bangla! this study represents a new approach to troubles talk! combining the rigor of discourse analysis with the interpretive depth of psychological anthropology. Its careful transcriptions of Bangladeshi troubles talk will disturb some readers and move others--beyond past academic discussion of personhood in South Asia. Zusammenfassung This is a study of the complaints of medical patients in rural Bangladesh, and how those complaints are connected to and reveal the patient's social world, social relations, sense of self, ideology of language and his/her relation to power. The book also focuses on the current troubles besetting genres of complaint in Bangladesh. Wilce provides the first ethnography of Bangla communication, the first semiotically-oriented book on greater Bengal, and the first attempt to apply critical medical anthropology to Bangladesh.

Product details

• Authors: James M. Wilce, Wilce James M.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.1998
• EAN: 9780195106879
• ISBN: 978-0-19-510687-9
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics; Oxford Studies in Anthropologi; Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; Linguistics, Anthropology, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Bangladesh