Publication

2003-11-14 - Oxford University Press, USA

Language

English

Word Count

81,000 words, Guess

Page Count

324 pages

Identifiers

  • Internet Archiveeloquencetrouble00wilc
  • ISBN-100195106881
  • ISBN-139780195106886
  • Goodreads6912470
  • LibraryThing3128235
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First Sentence

"Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain," or so says comedienne Lily Tomlin (quoted in Pinker 1994: 32; emphasis added).

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Eloquence in Trouble: The Poetics and Politics of Complaint in Rural Bangladesh (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics)Oxford University Press, USA2003-11-14

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