Scientizing Bangladeshi psychiatry: Parallelism, enregisterment, and the cure for a magic complex

Language in Society

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 91-114

  Wilce, James M ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; Classification; Enregisterment; Linguistic anthropology; Natural kinds; Parallelism; Poetics; Psychiatry

Indexed keywords

EID: 38149115568     PISSN: 00474045     EISSN: 14698013     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0047404508080044     Document Type: Article

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