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Pilot study: Politeness Strategies in selected Doctor-Patient Interactions in Ibadan Private Hospitals

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  • David Olorunsogo

    (Department of English, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria)

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The professional side and social side of medical discourse have been recognized by scholars. Scholarship in the Nigerian Medical Context has geared towards the professional side until recently that the social side is given attention. Earlier researches that have investigated politeness within the Nigerian context of medical discuss have not given primacy to private hospital. This paper is a pilot study to investigate how Politeness Strategies are deployed in Doctor-Patient interactions in private hospitals in Ibadan. With specific objectives of investigating how doctors employ politeness strategies in eliciting information from patients; investigating the kind of face wants of patients in doctor-patients interactions; examining the asymmetry between doctors and patients. It was been discovered that doctors mostly make use of bald on-record strategies with older patients and more of positive politeness strategies with children. Patients, employ positive politeness strategy and negative politeness as demanded by the emerging context of interaction.

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  • David Olorunsogo, 2020. "Pilot study: Politeness Strategies in selected Doctor-Patient Interactions in Ibadan Private Hospitals," International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS), vol. 4(8), pages 489-493, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:bcp:journl:v:4:y:2020:i:8:p:489-493
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