Publications

Publication details [#53533]

Oduor Ojwang, Benson, Peter Maina Matu and Emily Atieno Ogutu. 2010. Face attack and patients' response strategies in a Kenyan hospital. Journal of Sociolinguistics 14 (4) : 501–523.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse strategy | doctor-patient conversation | face maintenance | hospital | silence

Place, Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/josl

Annotation

This study discusses and demonstrates how patients in Kenyan hospitals counter nurses' frequent face-attacking moves through face repair, silence and retaliatory face damage.