Akin Odebunmi
List of John Benjamins publications in which Akin Odebunmi is involved.
Journal
ISSN 1878-9714 | E‑ISSN 1878‑9722
Online Resource
Bibliography of Pragmatics Online
Edited by Frank Brisard, Michael Meeuwis and Jef Verschueren
E‑ISSN 1877‑9646
2025 Chapter 5. Knowledge distribution in provenance inquiries: Small talk in Nigerian clinical meetings Identity Perspectives from Peripheries, Matsumoto, Yoshiko and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 94–124 | Chapter
The chapter addresses how doctors and patients negotiate provenance in small talk initiated by doctors in Southwestern Nigerian clinical meetings. Citing instances of provenance inquiries found in 20 clinical interactions, and adopting a CA-inspired discourse-analytical approach (with aspects of… read more
2022 Nigerian hospital setting discourse Handbook of Pragmatics: 24th Annual Installment, Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 187–219 | Chapter
2021 Negotiating patients’ therapy proposals in paternalistic and humanistic clinics Pragmatics 31:3, pp. 430–454 | Article
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.… read more
2015 Ọmọlúàbí Handbook of Pragmatics: 2015 Installment, Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren (eds.) | Article
2012 “The baby dey CHUK CHUK”: Language and emotions in doctor–client interaction Pragmatics and Society 3:1, pp. 120–148 | Article
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… read more
2012 Participation configuration in a Nigerian university campus Pragmatics & Cognition 20:1, pp. 186–215 | Article
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,… read more
2011 Concealment in consultative encounters in Nigerian hospitals Pragmatics 21:4, pp. 619–645 | Article
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… read more
2010 Ideology and body part metaphors in Nigerian English Review of Cognitive Linguistics 8:2, pp. 272–299 | Article
Studies on Nigerian English (NE) have largely focused on the variation of NE from Standard English. Few of these have investigated metaphors in NE and none, to the best of my knowledge, has worked on ideology and metaphor. This paper fills this gap by concentrating only on body part metaphors.… read more
2006 Locutions in medical discourse in Southwestern Nigeria Pragmatics 16:1, pp. 25–41 | Article
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… read more