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ABSTRACT
This study explored the intricate connection between language and traditional medicine in the Ìjẹ̀bú Remo community of Ogun state, Nigeria. The study analyzed some language practices and cultural norms and values regarding traditional healing processes. The Ìjẹ̀bú Remo community was the focus of this study and the Dell Hymes ethnography of communication theory was used in the analysis of the language practices. The data were collected through the participant-observation method of data collection from three (3) traditional medicine practitioners living within the Ìjẹ̀bú Remo community.
The finding of this work proves that language is employed by the traditional medicine practitioners in three ways such as diagnosis, administration and treatment. Also, it was observed that language is employed in the terms of plants, soaps, oil and other forms of ingredients used within the traditional healing processes which differs from the orthodox method. From this finding, it is obvious therefore that language plays a vital role in the dialogue between a traditional medicine practitioners and the patients.
