A Knowledge-based Approach in the Conceptualisation of Disease Terms in Tiv for a More Effective Health Communication

There is a general perception that terminology constitutes an intractable obstacle to the use of African languages in high- function domains such as science and technology, engineering, medicine, etc. It is with a view to enhancing specificity which facilitates better communication that one of such domains (health) was chosen for this study. Specifically, the study looked at cases of semantic extensions and mismatches that lead to vagueness medical discourse in Tiv speakers (Tiv, a language spoken in