Eloquence in Trouble: The Poetics and Politics of Complaint in Rural Bangladesh.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1, Troubling Ourselves with Bangla Troubles Talk
Chapter 2, Listening in Matlab: Where Troubles Talk Led Me

Chapter 3, Signs and selfhood
Chapter 4, Personhood: The "I" in the Complaint
Chapter 5, Self and Indexicals: Language and Locus of Control
Chapter 6, Learning to Tell Troubles: Socialization of Crying and Troubles Telling
Chapter 7, Icons and Iconic Indexes: Complaint Practices and Local Views

Chapter 8, Troubles Talk and Social Conflict
Chapter 9, Interacting with Practitioners
Chapter 10, Metacomplaints: Conflict, Resistance, and Metacommunication
Chapter 11, The Pragmatics of "Madness": Performance and Resistance
Chapter 12, Legitimacy, Illegitimacy, and Madness in Bangladesh
Chapter 13, Troubles Talk and Its Troubling (and Troubled) Eloquence

Appendix: Transcribing Matlab speech

Notes
References
Index and Glossary