Nigerian hospital setting discourse
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Medical discourse, pragmatics and doctor-patient interactions in Nigerian hospital settings
- 3.Themes in Nigerian hospital setting discourse
- 3.1Alignment with institutional prescriptions
- 3.1.1Hierarchical communication
- 3.1.2Structured communication
- 3.1.3De-routinisation of everyday experiences
- 3.1.4Communicative and strategic language use
- 3.2Co-existence of conventional and local linguistic choices
- 3.2.1The use of medical terminologies
- 3.2.2Grammatical choices
- 3.3Socio-cultural, ideological and practice-setting impingements on clinical encounters
- 3.4Differential orientation to medical and social voices
- 4.Conclusion
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