Publications
Publication details [#26593]
Adegbite, Wale. 1995. The structure of texts from herbalist-client encounters in Yoruba traditional medicine. Text 15 (2) : 271–297.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Journal WWW
Annotation
This study analyzes and describes the text structure of Yoruba herbalist-client therapeutic encounters, which are either dialogical, involving diagnostic and prescriptive transactions, either dialogical combined with monological narratives made in supplicating and incantatory transactions.