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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
Place, Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell

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.