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Publication details [#18416]

Wilce, James M. Jr. 1998. Eloquence in Trouble: The Poetics and Politics of Complaint in Rural Bangladesh. (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics 21). Oxford University Press. xix + 300 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
complaining | ethnography
Language as a subject
Bengali
ISBN
0-19-510687-3

Annotation

An ethnography of the speech genre of 'troubles talk' (laments) in rural Bangladesh.

Reviewed by

Maskarinec, Gregory G. 2001. Review of $Eloquence in Trouble: The Poetics and Politics of Complaint in Rural Bangladesh.
Wortham, Stanton. 2001. Review of $Eloquence in Trouble: The Poetics and Politics of Complaint in Rural Bangladesh.
Seely, Clinton B. 2000. Review of $Eloquence in Trouble: The Poetics and Politics of Complaint in Rural Bangladesh.