Eloquence in Trouble: The Poetics and Politics of Complaint in Rural Bangladesh: 21 (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics)

by JamesM.Wilce (Author)

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  1999

  $253.67

  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.