Eloquence in trouble
Subtitle: the poetics and politics of complaint in rural Bangladesh
By: James M. Wilce.
Series: Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics ;; 21
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: Sociolinguistics -- Bangladesh.
Description: James M. Wilce's study of the complaints of medical patients in rural Bangladesh reveals the patient's social world, social relations, sense of self, ideology of language and his or her relation to power.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-292) and index.