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Universität Bern
2008
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- Pragmatic Strategies of Diagnostic News Delivery in Nigerian Hospitals Akin Odebunmi Lengua y Literatura This paper sets out to study pragmatic strategies of diagnostic news delivery in Nigerian hospitals, an area that has received extremely little attenti on in the linguistic literature. It ultimately aims to see how these strategies are similar to or are different from those used in Western hospitals, especially as studied by Maynard ( 1991a, 1991b, 1991c , 1992, 2003, 2004). The hospitals sampled were strat ified into teaching, stategovernment owned and private hospitals, and a random selection of five hospitals from each group was made. Data were collected through tape recordings, and personal observation of hospital interactions. The analysis of data was b ased on insights from Levinson's (1979) notion of activity type and Maynard's ( 1991a, 1991b, 1991c , 1992, 2003, 2004) devices of diagnostic news delivery. The findings reveal that three strategies are used to declare diagnostic news. Two of these are the m ain strategies identified by Maynard, namely asserting the condition and citing the evidence, but the third, mitigating the blunt news through veils and hedges, is largely peculiar to Nigerian hospitals. The paper concludes that a study of pragmatic strate gies of diagnostic news delivery contributes to a better understanding of hospital interactions, and provides insights into doctors' verbal outputs in diagnostic meetings. 2008 artículo científico 1615-3014 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=664573556005 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=6645 Linguistik online application/pdf Universität Bern Linguistik online (Suiza) Num.4 Vol.36