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

Name: Eloquence in Trouble
Brand: Oxford University Press Inc
SKU: 9780195106879
Price: 23350 KES
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ISBN: 9780195106879

by James M. Wilce Jr.

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Format Hardback

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: linguistics Sociolinguistics Cultural studies Anthropology Medicine

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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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