Akinola Odebunmi

[ 1 ] - Greetings and Politeness in Doctor-Client Encounters in Southwestern Nigeria

Doctors and clients sometimes experience interactive clashes during hospital meetings in South-western Nigerian hospitals because of their divergent culture-constrained orientation to politeness cues. The goal of this paper is to unpack the discursive elements that characterize interactive confluence and divergence in selected consultative encounters in the hospitals. The findings indicate that...