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Multiple Codes, Multiple Impressions: An Analysis of Doctor-Client Encounters in Nigeria
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Odebunmi, Akin – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2013
Existing studies on doctor-client interactions have largely focused on monolingual encounters and the interactional effects and functions of the languages used in the communication between doctors and their clients. They have neither, to a large extent, examined the several codes employed in single encounters and their pragmatic roles nor given…
Descriptors: Physician Patient Relationship, Foreign Countries, Pragmatics, Monolingualism