socio anthropological linguistic oxford power sharing language rank gender social space pohnpeus micronesium elizabeth keat university texa oxford study anthropological linguistic allow certain individual group maintain control over action life linguistic anthropologist elizabeth keat island pohnpeus micronesium study language semiotic code reproduce manipulate status difference result inside view language work create power social inequality book challenge widely hold theory nature social stratification include woman s role create hierarchy december pp halftone linecut oxford university press eloquence trouble poetic politic complaint rural bangladesh jame m wilce northern arizona university oxford study anthropological linguistic eloquence trouble capture articulation several trouble life bangladesh threat genre expression lament particular first ethnography one most speak mother tongue earth banglum study represent approach trouble talk combine rigor discourse analysis interpretive depth psychological anthropology careful transcription bangladeshus trouble talk disturb reader move beyond past academic discussion personhood south asium december pp halftone linecut oxford university press information linguistic title oxford visit oxford university press usa web site http www oupusa org email linguistics oupusa org 