Abstract:
Conversational Analysis research aims
to analyze the interaction or talk rather than the language. The paper analyzed
the floor of conversation in Hausa interactions of business dialogue. The data
were collected through the observation procedure. The conversational Analysis
approach proposed by Sacks, Schegloff, and Jefferson (1974) is used to analyze
the data. Conversational analysis is used because it allows the researcher(s)
to analyze the collected data based on talk in social interactions. The study
revealed that, in Hausa business conversation the buyer starts the turn before
allowing the seller to take up the floor. Sometimes he may decide to hold the
turn for a long time. In some situations the seller may have only a few things
to say such as ‘Eh’, ‘To’ or ‘a’a’ (yes, okay, or no). The research found that
social setting discourse has some features that differ from business
conversation, such as overlap in speeches, where you can have two or more
interlocutors talking at the same time or participants trying to take their
turn at the same time after the previous speaker had finished or is about to
finish his turn.
Keywords: Conversational
analysis, Business, Social setting, Hausa
DOI: www.doi.org/10.36349/tjllc.2024.v03i02.009
author/Sani Abdullahi Muhammad & Ali Umar Muhammad
journal/Tasambo JLLC 3(2) | September 2024 |
