Акин Одебунми
Biographic Data
| ID | 4517835 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Акин Одебунми |
| GIVEN NAMES | Акин |
| FAMILY NAME | Одебунми |
| SIGNATURE | ОДЕБУНМИ А |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ibadan |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9931-9051 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Discursive management of patients’ disagreement with doctors’ recommendations in Nigerian hospital visits
Patients’ disagreement with doctors’ treatment recommendations, which receives participatory or non-participatory attention from the consultative parties, constitutes a major discursive issue in clinical encounters. However, the literature on medical discourse has demonstrated more concentration on the participatory than the non-participatory dimension of the encounters. This discursive representation does not adequately capture the consultative …
Concealment in consultative encounters in Nigerian hospitals
Although communication in medical practice is reputed for exactitude and objectivity, many doctors in several countries make equivocal, concealing utterances in certain situations when relating with clients. This phenomenon, despite its importance in doctor-client interaction, has received little attention from language scholars who have discussed concealment mainly as a strategy in news delivery. The present study examines concealment items in t…
Locutions in medical discourse in Southwestern Nigeria
The paper examines the pragmatic roles that locutionary acts play in understanding the communication between doctors and patients in Southwestern Nigeria. Working within John Austin’s locutionary acts, with restrictions to the lexical occurrences and lexical relationships observed in the discourse, it got data through tape recordings of doctor-patient conversations and interviews of both doctors and patients (and/or their relations).The findings …
Negotiating patients’ therapy proposals in paternalistic and humanistic clinics
The negotiation of patients’ therapy proposals often makes a strong statement about doctors’ consultative styles in Nigerian clinical encounters. This invites a search into the relationship between patients’ preferred treatment options and doctors’ and patients’ approaches to negotiating them. Analysis reveals the sequential and face orientation mechanisms deployed in negotiating patients’ proposals in predominantly doctor-centred clinics, the in…
On terrorist attacks in Nigeria: Stance and engagement in conversations on Nairaland
Terrorist attacks in Nigeria have generated a huge body of conversations and debates on the Internet. This study investigates the contents of these online conversations on Nairaland and how such conversations exhibit stance and civic engagement in response to the attacks. Nairaland is an online community and public space that serves as a meeting place for Nigerians at home and in the Diaspora, who constantly follow-up on the events in Nigeria and…
You didn't give me to go and buy: Negotiating accountability for poor health in post-recommendation medical consultations
Multiple codes, multiple impressions: An analysis of doctor–client encounters in Nigeria
Multiple codes, multiple impressions: An analysis of doctor–client encounters in Nigeria
“The baby dey CHUK CHUK”: Language and emotions in doctor–client interaction
Nigerian Pidgin is a popular informal communicative code in Nigerian social, economic and political experience. It is sometimes spoken in formal situations in the hospital setting when participants find it pragmatically convenient. Despite its communicative significance, little research has been carried out on the use of Pidgin in conversational interactions in Nigerian hospitals, a gap this study fills by investigating how Pidgin is used in cons…
Participation configuration in a Nigerian university campus
Studies on participation and spatial orientations of college students have examined aspects of university life, as projected through language, from a reportorial or narrative perspective, but hardly any one of these studies has been devoted exclusively to how students’ participation structure, together with the activities participants orient to at the participation space, evokes shared socio-academic backgrounds and cultural constraints, a major …
Perspectivization in Fiction: A Deictic Study of Wole Soyinka’s
Perspectivization in fiction: "A deictic study of Wole Soyinka ́s "Ake
The study of linguistics of literary discourse is a recent development in the global spread. Until 1982, efforts made in the seventies in this direction were by literary critics such as Chatman (1978), Ehrlich (1990), Fludernik (1993) and Mey (2000). No work that we are aware of has specifically studied how characters in fiction have been focalized through deictics alone. The common trend is that deictic features are taken along with other lingui…
A pragmatic reading of Ahmed Yerima's proverbs in Yemoja, Attahiru, and Dry Leaves on Ukan Trees
Unlike earlier studies that have examined proverbs from the point of view of speech acts, the present article draws on the more recent perspective of pragmatic acts or pragmatic acting. It examines three recent dramas by Ahmed Yerima, the prominent Nigerian playwright and director of the Nigerian National Theatre. In these plays— Attahiru (1999), Dry Leaves on Ukan Trees (2001), and Yemoja (2002), African proverbs display all of the conventional …
On terrorist attacks in Nigeria: Stance and engagement in conversations on Nairaland
Terrorist attacks in Nigeria have generated a huge body of conversations and debates on the Internet. This study investigates the contents of these online conversations on Nairaland and how such conversations exhibit stance and civic engagement in response to the attacks. Nairaland is an online community and public space that serves as a meeting place for Nigerians at home and in the Diaspora, who constantly follow-up on the events in Nigeria and…
Multiple codes, multiple impressions: An analysis of doctor–client encounters in Nigeria
A pragmatic reading of Ahmed Yerima's proverbs in Yemoja, Attahiru, and Dry Leaves on Ukan Trees
Unlike earlier studies that have examined proverbs from the point of view of speech acts, the present article draws on the more recent perspective of pragmatic acts or pragmatic acting. It examines three recent dramas by Ahmed Yerima, the prominent Nigerian playwright and director of the Nigerian National Theatre. In these plays— Attahiru (1999), Dry Leaves on Ukan Trees (2001), and Yemoja (2002), African proverbs display all of the conventional …
You didn't give me to go and buy: Negotiating accountability for poor health in post-recommendation medical consultations
A pragmatic reading of Ahmed Yerima's proverbs in Yemoja, Attahiru, and Dry Leaves on Ukan Trees
Unlike earlier studies that have examined proverbs from the point of view of speech acts, the present article draws on the more recent perspective of pragmatic acts or pragmatic acting. It examines three recent dramas by Ahmed Yerima, the prominent Nigerian playwright and director of the Nigerian National Theatre. In these plays— Attahiru (1999), Dry Leaves on Ukan Trees (2001), and Yemoja (2002), African proverbs display all of the conventional …
Perspectivization in fiction: "A deictic study of Wole Soyinka ́s "Ake
The study of linguistics of literary discourse is a recent development in the global spread. Until 1982, efforts made in the seventies in this direction were by literary critics such as Chatman (1978), Ehrlich (1990), Fludernik (1993) and Mey (2000). No work that we are aware of has specifically studied how characters in fiction have been focalized through deictics alone. The common trend is that deictic features are taken along with other lingui…
Perspectivization in Fiction: A Deictic Study of Wole Soyinka’s
“The baby dey CHUK CHUK”: Language and emotions in doctor–client interaction
Nigerian Pidgin is a popular informal communicative code in Nigerian social, economic and political experience. It is sometimes spoken in formal situations in the hospital setting when participants find it pragmatically convenient. Despite its communicative significance, little research has been carried out on the use of Pidgin in conversational interactions in Nigerian hospitals, a gap this study fills by investigating how Pidgin is used in cons…
Participation configuration in a Nigerian university campus
Studies on participation and spatial orientations of college students have examined aspects of university life, as projected through language, from a reportorial or narrative perspective, but hardly any one of these studies has been devoted exclusively to how students’ participation structure, together with the activities participants orient to at the participation space, evokes shared socio-academic backgrounds and cultural constraints, a major …
Multiple codes, multiple impressions: An analysis of doctor–client encounters in Nigeria
Multiple codes, multiple impressions: An analysis of doctor–client encounters in Nigeria
On terrorist attacks in Nigeria: Stance and engagement in conversations on Nairaland
Terrorist attacks in Nigeria have generated a huge body of conversations and debates on the Internet. This study investigates the contents of these online conversations on Nairaland and how such conversations exhibit stance and civic engagement in response to the attacks. Nairaland is an online community and public space that serves as a meeting place for Nigerians at home and in the Diaspora, who constantly follow-up on the events in Nigeria and…
You didn't give me to go and buy: Negotiating accountability for poor health in post-recommendation medical consultations
Negotiating patients’ therapy proposals in paternalistic and humanistic clinics
The negotiation of patients’ therapy proposals often makes a strong statement about doctors’ consultative styles in Nigerian clinical encounters. This invites a search into the relationship between patients’ preferred treatment options and doctors’ and patients’ approaches to negotiating them. Analysis reveals the sequential and face orientation mechanisms deployed in negotiating patients’ proposals in predominantly doctor-centred clinics, the in…
Concealment in consultative encounters in Nigerian hospitals
Although communication in medical practice is reputed for exactitude and objectivity, many doctors in several countries make equivocal, concealing utterances in certain situations when relating with clients. This phenomenon, despite its importance in doctor-client interaction, has received little attention from language scholars who have discussed concealment mainly as a strategy in news delivery. The present study examines concealment items in t…
Locutions in medical discourse in Southwestern Nigeria
The paper examines the pragmatic roles that locutionary acts play in understanding the communication between doctors and patients in Southwestern Nigeria. Working within John Austin’s locutionary acts, with restrictions to the lexical occurrences and lexical relationships observed in the discourse, it got data through tape recordings of doctor-patient conversations and interviews of both doctors and patients (and/or their relations).The findings …
Discursive management of patients’ disagreement with doctors’ recommendations in Nigerian hospital visits
Patients’ disagreement with doctors’ treatment recommendations, which receives participatory or non-participatory attention from the consultative parties, constitutes a major discursive issue in clinical encounters. However, the literature on medical discourse has demonstrated more concentration on the participatory than the non-participatory dimension of the encounters. This discursive representation does not adequately capture the consultative …
Psychology (11 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Law (4 works) · Negotiation (4 works) · Public relations (4 works)