The effect of gender and age in Setswana greetings

Bagwasi, Mompoloki Mmangaka

doi:10.2989/16073614.2012.693717

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“…41 The Setswana people describe a person who greets as having “botho” which means they have humanity, good relations and care for others. 42 The perception of politeness is supported by rapport building, where upholding social practices and communicating accordingly connects people. For example, not greeting an older African person can lead to the individual feeling disrespected and can compromise the patient-doctor relationship.…”

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Sexual History Taking: Perspectives on Doctor-Patient Interactions During Routine Consultations in Rural Primary Care in South Africa

2021

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Background: Sexual history taking for risk behavior contributes to improving health outcomes in primary care. Giving the high numbers of people living with AIDS, every patient in South Africa should be offered an HIV test, which implies that a comprehensive sexual history must be taken. Aim: To describe the optimal consultation process, as well as associated factors and skills required to improve disclosure of sexual health issues during a clinical encounter with a doctor in primary health care settings in North West province, South Africa. Methods: This qualitative study, based on grounded theory, involved the video-recording of 151 consultations of adult patients living primarily with hypertension and diabetes. This article reports on the 5 consultations where some form of sexual history taking was observed. Patient consultations were analyzed thematically, which entailed open coding, followed by focused and verbatim coding using MaxQDA 2018 software. Confirmability was ensured by 2 generalist doctors, a public health specialist and the study supervisors. Main Outcome Measure: Sexual history was not taken and patients living with sexual dysfunction were missed. If patients understand how disease and medication contribute to their sexual wellbeing, this may change their perceptions of the illness and adherence patterns. Results: Sexual history was taken in 5 (3%) out of 151 consultations. Three themes emerged from these 5 consultations. In the patient-doctor relationship theme, patients experienced paternalism and a lack of warmth and respect. The consultation context theme included the seating arrangements, ineffective use of time, and privacy challenges due to interruptions and translators. Theme 3, consultation content, dealt with poor coverage of the components of the sexual health history. Conclusion: Overall, sexual dysfunction in patients was totally overlooked and risk for HIV was not explored, which had a negative effect on patients' quality of life and long-term health outcomes. The study provided detailed information on the complexity of sexual history taking during a routine consultation and is relevant to primary health care in a rural setting.

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Sexual History Taking: Perspectives on Doctor-Patient Interactions During Routine Consultations in Rural Primary Care in South Africa

2021

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“…It pervades, for example, the analysis of greeting sequences, a field that has proven particularly popular, presumably because it is one of the few linguistic practices found in everyday encounters that, due to their predictable and formulaic character, are easy to collect in large numbers. Thus, Irvine's seminal (1974) paper on status manipulation in Wolof greetings was followed by a steady stream of analyses of greeting rituals in other languages/communities, including Yoruba (Akindele 1990), Swahili (Omar 1992), Igbo (Nwoye 1993), Akan (Agyekum 2008), Setswana (Bagwasi 2012) and Sukuma (Batibo 2015). In time, it was supplemented with work on other speech acts (e.g., Irvine 1980 on requests in Wolof, Obeng 1999a and 1999b on Akan requests and apologies, Agyekum 2010 on expressions of thanks, also in Akan), as well as work on politeness phenomena and the notion of face (e.g., Nwoye 1992, Yahya-Othman 1994, Obeng 1994, Agyekum 2004, Ojwang et al 2010).…”

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Situated Language Use in Africa

D’hondt¹

2019

The Cambridge Handbook of African Linguistics

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“…As it is the case in all speech communities, greeting rituals are markers of positive politeness (Brown andLevinson 1987, Mills 2005). In fact, greeting is considered to be central in many African traditions (Akindele 1990(Akindele , 2009Bagwasi 2012;Kezilahabi 2004). It is seen as essential in human interaction and having a social role in establishing interpersonal relationship.…”

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The prevalence of cultural diversity in a multilingual situation: the case of age and gender dimensions in the Shisukuma and Kiswahili greeting rituals

Batibo

2015

Journal of Multicultural Discourses

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The prevalence of cultural diversity in a situation of multilingualism is common in Africa, where each language is tied up with distinct cultural values and world view. Hence, the semantic and cultural dimensions of one language do not always correspond with another. Such a situation has caused cultural conflict when, in a marked bilingual situation, one language group undertakes to use its cultural norms in speaking another language. This problem has become common in situations where speakers of minority languages use major languages as lingua franca in various forms of discourse, including phatic expressions, like calling attention, greeting, bidding farewell or establishing contacts. This paper examines the conflict situation which has emerged when the speakers of Shisukuma, a Bantu language spoken in north-western part of Tanzania, transfer their linguistic and cultural norms into Kiswahili, a dominant lingua franca in eastern and central Africa. The paper investigates the way the two languages consider age and gender in their greeting rituals. The main argument in this paper is that Shisukuma speakers have maintained their cognitive-lexical and cultural dimensions when speaking Kiswahili, as a primary language. This cultural resistance follows Lamy and Pool's contention that cultural shift is slower than linguistic change.

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The effect of gender and age in Setswana greetings

Cited by 31 publications

References 5 publications

Sexual History Taking: Perspectives on Doctor-Patient Interactions During Routine Consultations in Rural Primary Care in South Africa

Sexual History Taking: Perspectives on Doctor-Patient Interactions During Routine Consultations in Rural Primary Care in South Africa

Situated Language Use in Africa

The prevalence of cultural diversity in a multilingual situation: the case of age and gender dimensions in the Shisukuma and Kiswahili greeting rituals

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