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Eloquence in Trouble : the Poetics and Politics of Complaint in Rural Bangladesh.
Eloquence in Trouble captures the articulation of several troubled lives in Bangladesh as well as the threats to the very genres of their expression, lament in particular. The first ethnography of one of the most spoken mother tongues on earth, Bangla, this study represents a new approach to trouble...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
1998.
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| Colección: | Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Eloquence in Trouble captures the articulation of several troubled lives in Bangladesh as well as the threats to the very genres of their expression, lament in particular. The first ethnography of one of the most spoken mother tongues on earth, Bangla, this study represents a new approach to troubles talk, combining the rigor of discourse analysis with the interpretive depth of psychological anthropology. Its careful transcriptions of Bangladeshi troubles talk will disturbsome readers and move others-beyond past academic discussion of personhood in South Asia. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (321 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780195355444 019535544X |