Bambi Schieffelin, Kathryn Woolard, & Paul Kroskrity (eds.), Language ideologies: Practice and theory. (Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics, 16.) Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xiii, 338. Hb $75.00, pb $35.00.

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pp. 100-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
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This volume makes available to us a revised and expanded collection of essays originally published in 1992 as a special issue of the journal Pragmatics. In a masterful and greatly expanded introduction to the volume, Kathryn Woolard establishes the parameters of a field that seeks to advance the goal of linking work on language structure with that on language politics, as well as with linguistic and social theory more generally.

James M. Wilce,Eloquence in trouble: The poetics and politics of complaint in rural Bangladesh. (Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics, 21). Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xix, 300. Hb $65.00.

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This is a very personal book, a poignant book, a compelling book, from beginning to end. The Preface sets the tone: self-reflexive and confessional. Wilce once wanted to be a medical doctor; he became instead a missionary in Bangladesh, but felt “guilt and pervasive disquiet” in that role; and while in Bengal – actually, in neighboring Calcutta – he suffered a “nightmarish” family tragedy involving medical practitioners. He later resigned from the mission and went to graduate school; then he returned to Bangladesh to study complaint and lament as expressed in one locality within the Bangla-speaking area. (“Bangla” and “Bengali” are two names for the same language. Wilce refers to the language as Bangla; so shall I.)

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