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 disturb some readers and move others--beyond past academic discussion of personhood in South Asia.
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"This is a very personal book, a poignant book, a compelling book, from beginning to end...A major strength of this book resides in its presentation of specimens of rural Bangladeshi Bangla speech. These specimens are not in the privileged form of Bangla that normally finds its way into books; and therefore the Bangla of Matlab might never have been archived for the furure...Now we have an archived specimen of that language, thanks to Wilce's efforts."Language in Society
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James M. Wilce is at Northern Arizona University.
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"Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain," or so says comedienne Lily Tomlin (quoted in Pinker 1994: 32; emphasis added). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
wept speech, texted weeping, tuneful weeping, complaint interactions, intrapsychic autonomy, fictive brothers, troubles talk, troubles teller, ritual wailing, creaky voice, sound symbolism, referential practice, language socialization, velar stop, illness narratives Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Asia, Habibur Rahman, Los Angeles, Heykal Daktar, Delwar Kari, Karim Baksh, Dhaka University, United States, Krishna Daktar, Jalu Miah, Manwara Bibi, Sufi Muslim, Allah Allah, Bangladeshi Muslim, Hahihur Rahman, Third World, Line Gloss, Taslima Nasrin, West Bengal New!
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South Asia, Habibur Rahman, Los Angeles, Heykal Daktar, Delwar Kari, Karim Baksh, Dhaka University, United States, Krishna Daktar, Jalu Miah, Manwara Bibi, Sufi Muslim, Allah Allah, Bangladeshi Muslim, Hahihur Rahman, Third World, Line Gloss, Taslima Nasrin, West Bengal New!
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- Linguistic Anthropology (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) by Alessandro Duranti in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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