Discourse Tact in Doctor-Patient Interactions in English: An Analysis of Diagnosis in Medical Communication in Nigeria

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dc.contributor.authorAdegbite, Wale
dc.contributor.authorOdebunmi, Akin
dc.coverage.geographicalNigeriaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-08-18T07:37:27Z
dc.date.accessioned2018-10-27T14:59:23Z
dc.date.available2014-08-18T07:37:27Z
dc.date.available2018-10-27T14:59:23Z
dc.date.issued2006
dc.departmentEnglishen_US
dc.description.abstractThis study describes discourse tact in diagnoses in doctor-patient interactions in English in selected hospitals in South-western Nigeria. Using recorded conversations between doctors and patients in those hospitals as data, the mutual contextual beliefs of participants, speech act patterns, including linguistic patterns, and other pragmatic features are analyzed from the perspective of the pragmatics of discourse. The findings indicate the predominance of doctor-initiated spoken exchanges in which doctors elicit and confirm information and give directives to patients, while the patients give information and attempt to respond appropriately to the doctors' moves. It is also observed that conversation maxims are flouted and politeness maxims exploited in order to enhance successful diagnosis in the interaction. Finally, it is observed that doctor-patient interaction is only one out of many aspects of medical communication that require the attention of language scholars in order to gain insight into language as an act of social behaviour and action, especially with respect to the institution of medicine.en_US
dc.facultiesArtsen_US
dc.format.filetypePDFen_US
dc.identifier.citationAdegbite, Wale and Odebunmi, Akin (2006). Discourse Tact in Doctor-Patient Interactions in English: An Analysis of Diagnosis in Medical Communication in Nigeria. Nordic Journal of African Studies, 15(4).en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/2669
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.pages.totalpages21en_US
dc.subjectDiscourse tacten_US
dc.subjectDoctor-patient interactionen_US
dc.subjectDiagnostic interactionen_US
dc.subjectMedical communicationen_US
dc.titleDiscourse Tact in Doctor-Patient Interactions in English: An Analysis of Diagnosis in Medical Communication in Nigeriaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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