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

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

This 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, includi...

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Main Authors:	Adegbite, Wale, Odebunmi, Akin
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	2014
Subjects:	Discourse tact Doctor-patient interaction Diagnostic interaction Medical communication
Online Access:	http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/2669
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