Eloquence in Trouble
Subtitle: The Poetics and Politics of Complaint in Rural Bangladesh (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: November 14, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780195106886
First sentence: "Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain," or so says comedienne Lily Tomlin (quoted in Pinker 1994: 32; emphasis added).