It continues to be unclear what opportunities and challenges that lie in the activation encounter as a communicative relational situation. This study assumes ambivalence is present such encounters since common transitions, relationships, organisations. As response limited body of knowledge about situated aspects work, this examines handlings authentic between workers young adults experiencing h...

Objectives: Cognitive apprenticeship learning focuses on improving understanding and clinical diagnostic reasoning among learners. The aim of this study was to describe the feasibility of cognitive apprenticeship encounters in clinical paediatric settings in terms of time consumption; and to describe the encounters in terms of learner and teacher behavior. Methods: This study was based on data ...

Doctors and clients sometimes experience interactive clashes during hospital meetings in South-western Nigerian hospitals because of their divergent culture-constrained orientation to politeness cues. The goal of this paper is to unpack the discursive elements that characterize interactive confluence and divergence in selected consultative encounters in the hospitals. The findings indicate that...