“We are in African society, women normally soft-pedal”: Cultural orientations in the construction of justice in Nigerian adjudicative discourses

References

Ajibade, Femi & Wale, Adegbite. 2005. The Sociology and Politics of English in Nigeria: An Introduction. Ife: Obafemi Awolow University Press.Search in Google Scholar

Ajibade, George. 2005. Is there no man with penis in this land? Eroticism and performance in YorùbáNuptial songs. African Study Monographs, Centre for African Area Studies, Kyoto University, Japan. Kyoto, 26.2. 99–113.Search in Google Scholar

Ajibade, George. 2009. Finding female voice: A socio-cultural appraisal of Yorùbá nuptial poetry. Rüdiger Koppel: Cologne.Search in Google Scholar

Ajiboye, Simeon. 2018. An pragmatic investigation of identity, justice and ideology in University law clinics in South-Western Nigeria. A Thesis in the Department of English Submitted to the Faculty of Arts for the Degree of Philosophy of the University of Ibadan, Nigeria.Search in Google Scholar

Ajiboye, Simeon. 2021. The construction of gender identity in Nigerian alternative dispute resolution centres. In Niyi Osunbade, Foluke Unuabonah, Ayo Osisanwo, Akin Adetunji & Funke Oni (eds.), Pragmatics, discourse and society: A festschrift for akin odebunmi 2, 90–109. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholar Publishing.Search in Google Scholar

Ajiboye, Simeon. 2025. Poisonous caterpillar fire should not burn a person twice’: Culturalorientations in Nigerian alternative dispute resolution encounters. Discourse Studies 27(1). 3–25. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456241254461.Search in Google Scholar

Alatise, Remi, Tajudeen Adeyinka, Musediq Lawal & Kehinde Raji. 2024. ‘Ilemosu’ social stigma and desire for remarriage among female divorcees in akinyele local government area of Oyo state, Nigeria. Acta Politica Polonica 1(57). 99–118. https://doi.org/10.18276/ap.2024.57-07.Search in Google Scholar

Brown, Penelope. & Levinson Stephen. 1987. Politeness: Some Universals in Language Usage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.10.1017/CBO9780511813085Search in Google Scholar

Fraser, Bruce. 1999. What are discourse marker? Journal of Pragmatics 31(7), 931–952.10.1016/S0378-2166(98)00101-5Search in Google Scholar

Candlin, Christopher & Maley Yon. 1997. Intertextuality and interdiscursivity in the discourse of alternative dispute resolution. In B.-L. Gunnarsson PL & B. Nordberg (eds.), The construction of professional discourse, 201–222. London: Longman.Search in Google Scholar

Chakrabarti, Chandana. 2015. Perspectives on culture, value and justice: Preface In Justice Chandana Chakrabarti & Tommi Lentonen (eds.), Perspective on Culture, Value and Justice, ix-x Newcastle: Cambridge Scholar Publishing.Search in Google Scholar

Chernyshenko, Alina Chernyshenko & Oleg Alimuradov. 2013. Linguistic parameters of the mediation discourse. Middle-East Journal of Scientific Research 15(3). 1092–1096.Search in Google Scholar

Clark, Herbert. 1996. Using language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Search in Google Scholar

Drabarz, Anna, Kałużny Tomasz & Stephen Terret. 2017. Language as an instrument for dispute resolution in modern justice. Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric 52(65). 41–56. https://doi.org/10.1515/slgr-2017-0041.Search in Google Scholar

Dukor, Maduabuchi. 1997. Conception of justice. Indian Philosophical Quarterly 24(4). 297–511.Search in Google Scholar

Garner, Bryan (ed). 2004. Black law dictionary. Dallas: Thomson West Publishing Company.Search in Google Scholar

Durkheim, Emile. 1960. The Division of Labor in Society. George Simpson (trans.). Glencoe, Illinois: The Free Press.Search in Google Scholar

Kecskes, Istvan. Situation-bound utterances as pragmatic acts. Journal of Pragmatics 2010;42:2889–97. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2010.06.008.Search in Google Scholar

Grice, Paul. 1975. Logic and conversation. In P. Cole & J. L. Morgan (eds.), Syntax and semantics, speech acts. New York: Academic Press.10.1163/9789004368811_003Search in Google Scholar

Holmes, Janet. 1992. An introduction to sociolinguistics. London: Longman.Search in Google Scholar

Jasso, Guillermina. 2005. Culture and the sense of justice. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 36(1). 14–47. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022104271425.Search in Google Scholar

Jefferson, Gail. 2004. Glossary of transcript symbols with an Introduction. In G. H. Lerner (eds.), Conversation Analysis: Studies from the first generation 13–23. Philadelphia: John Benjamin.10.1075/pbns.125.02jefSearch in Google Scholar

Kecskes, Istvan. 2023. The socio-cognitive approach to communication and pragmatics. New York: Springer.10.1007/978-3-031-30160-5Search in Google Scholar

Lindell, Bengt. 2012. Alternative dispute resolution and administration of justice-basic principles. Scandinavian Studies in Law 312. 343.Search in Google Scholar

Leech, Geoffrey. 1999. The distribution and function of vocatives in American and British English conversation. In Hilde Hasselg & Signe Okseell (eds.), Out of corpora: studies in honour of Stig Johansson 107–118. Berlin: Amsterdam, pp. 107–118.10.1163/9789004653689_013Search in Google Scholar

Locher, Miriam. A. & Sage Graham. 2010. Introduction to interpersonal pragmatics. In Locher Miriam & Graham Sage (eds.), Interpersonal pragmatics, 1–13. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.10.1515/9783110214338Search in Google Scholar

Maddox, Marion. 2009. Cultural justice. In Robert Charles Eliot (ed.), Institutional issue involving ethics and justice 1, 299–312. Paris: EOLSS Publisher Company Limited.Search in Google Scholar

Malinowski, Bronislaw. 1944. A scientific theory of culture, and other essays. North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press.Search in Google Scholar

Malinowski, Bronislaw. 1960. A scientific theory of culture and other essays. A galaxy book. New York: Oxford University Press.Search in Google Scholar

Matras, Yaron. Language contact, 2nd edn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 2020.Search in Google Scholar

Naden, Anthony. Ancestor non-worship in Mampruli. Lexikos 1996;6:71–103. https://doi.org/10.5788/6-1-1026.Search in Google Scholar

Nwanko, Dominic, Nnamdi Obikeze & Akam Uche. 2012. Alternative/appropriate dispute (conflict) resolution (ADR): The psychological facilitators. Research Journal in Organisational Psychology & Educational Studies 1. 83–89.Search in Google Scholar

Nwazi, Joseph. 2017. Assessing the efficacy of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) in the settlement of environmental dispute in the niger Delta region of Nigeria. Journal of Law Conflict Resolution 9(3). 26–41. https://doi.org/10.5897/jlcr2016.0254.Search in Google Scholar

Pomerantz, Anita. 1984. Agreeing and disagreeing with assessments: Some features of preferred/dispreferred turn-shapes. In J. M. Atkinson & J. Heritage (eds.), Structures of social action:studies in conversation analysis, 79–112. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.10.1017/CBO9780511665868.008Search in Google Scholar

Rosenberg, Joshua & Folberg Jay. 1994. Alternative dispute resolution: An empirical analysis. Stanford Law Review 46.6. 1487–1551.10.2307/1229164Search in Google Scholar

Schegloff, Emmanuel & Gene H. Lerner 2009. Beginning to respond: ‘Well’-prefaced responses to wh-questions. Research on Language and Social Interaction 42. 91–115. https://doi.org/10.1080/08351810902864511.Search in Google Scholar

Steven, Shavell. 1995. Alternative dispute resolution: An economic analysis. The Journal of Legal Studies 24(1). 1–28. https://doi.org/10.1086/467950.Search in Google Scholar

Tan, Huann. n.d. Alternative dispute resolution, 147–158. Available at: https://www.irbnet.de/daten/iconda/CIB18982.pdf (accessed 22 June 2024).Search in Google Scholar

Tinna, Keisanen & Elise Karkkainen. 2014. Stance. In Klaus P. Schneider & Anne Barron (eds.), Pragmatics of discourse 3, 295–322. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.10.1515/9783110214406-012Search in Google Scholar

Thompson, Rachel GA. Cultural scripts for asymmetrical interactions in Ghana. Nordic Journal of African Studies 2021;30:24.Search in Google Scholar

van der Geest, Sjaak. Ɔpanyin: the ideal of elder in the Akan culture of Ghana. Canadian Journal of African Studies 1998;32:449–93. https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.1998.10751147.3Search in Google Scholar

Wanger, Ina & Ruth Wodak. 2006. Performing success: Identifying strategies of elf-presentation in women’s biography narratives. Discourse & Society 17(3). 385–411.10.1177/0957926506060251Search in Google Scholar