Books by James M. Wilce

James M. Wilce's new textbook introduces students to the role of linguistic analysis in anthropology. Featuring a range of study aids and online resources, it is an essential resource for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students taking introductory courses on culture and communication, and linguistic anthropology.

Language is a means we use to communicate feelings; we also reflect emotionally on the language we and others use. This book analyses the signals people use to express emotion, looking at the social, cultural and political functions of emotional language around the world.

A study of the complaints of medical patients in rural Bangladesh, and how they are connected to and reveal the patient's social world, social relations, sense of self, ideology of language and his/her relation to power. It also focuses on the troubles besetting genres of complaint in Bangladesh.