Title: Eloquence in trouble
Subtitle: the poetics and politics of complaint in rural Bangladesh
First published: 1998
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.
Subjects: Sociolinguistics, Metaphor, Bangladesh, social conditions, Anthropological linguistics
Places: Bangladesh
LC classification: P40.45.B3 W55 1998