| Description |
1 online resource (321 pages) |
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Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics ; v. 21 |
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Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics.
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| 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 |
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11. The Pragmatics of Madness: Performance and Resistance12. 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 |
| Summary |
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 disturbsome readers and move others-beyond past academic discussion of personhood in South Asia |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Sociolinguistics -- Bangladesh
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Sociolinguistics
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Bangladesh
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780195355444 |
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019535544X |
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