1 MARQUEURS CONVERSATIONNELS EN LANGUE JJU : UNE ETUDE ANALYTIQUE
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2018-08-23
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Ahmadu Bello University Zaria
Abstract
This work : CONVERSATIONAL MARKERS IN JJU LANGUAGE: AN
ANALYTICAL STUDY is embedded in the field of interactional linguistics. We have
worked on a phenomenon that is purely oral: “les marqueurs” which is rooted in
conversational analysis, a sociological trend that has as its focus, to observe details of
interaction in their natural setting. The oral aspect of language, having been neglected for a
very long time in contrast to the written word, began to find its worth of place later and
subsequently became a subject of multidisciplinary study in which researchers from different
fields became interested. Our work centred on the native speakers of jju language from the
southern part of Kaduna State in Nigeria. The language has a minority status whose linguistic
study has remained poor due to: lack of interest by its speakers, lack of pedagogical materials
and above all, lack of support from the government. There is the unconscious use of the
markers in the daily conversations of the jju speakers. The objectives of the study were,
among others, to: identify the conversational markers in jju language; identify the contexts of
their usage; identify the difficulties encountered by jju speakers in the course of using the
markers in their daily conversations. Related approaches to the study of markers, in
particular, and to conversation, in general were used. In this study, three approaches were
used: sociolinguistic approach, pragmatic approach and interactionist approach. These
approaches had one thing in common: interaction. The method of data collection was the
recording of natural conversation of the speakers of jju. In the study, it was observed that
markers help in making conversation efficient; they served as a medium of interpersonal
understanding; they helped in decoding the manner in which a speaker conceived and
expressed meaning; it was also observed that most of the markers used by the Bajju are found
at the beginning of the sentence and that there is no much difference between men and