it is my great honor announcing the promotion of the archives of bone and joint surgery (abjs) to the level of being available on the pubmed central site. being precise, one year ago in september 2013, we published the first issue of the abjs. diligently thereafter, we published four subsequent issues with the fifth being in front of you. we set this as our first goal to reach visibility on pub...

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...