Eloquence in Trouble : The Poetics and Politics of Complaint in Rural Bangladesh
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics
ISBN-10
0195106873
ISBN-13
9780195106879
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint
Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 7th, 1999
Print length
320 Pages
Weight
717 grams
Dimensions
16.30 x 23.80 x 2.60 cms
Product Classification:
linguisticsSociolinguisticsCultural studiesAnthropologyMedicine
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A study of the complaints of medical patients in rural Bangladesh, and how they are connected to and reveal the patient's social world, social relations, sense of self, ideology of language and his/her relation to power. It also focuses on the troubles besetting genres of complaint in Bangladesh.
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.
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