Discourse Analysis of a Typical Public Car Park Conversations in Nigeria: A Case Study of Uyo Central Park in Akwa Ibom State
Keywords:
Car Park Conversations, discourse analysis, park dealersAbstract
The Linguistic choices of car park conversations in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, are examined in this work using discourse analysis framework. There is an attempt to identify significant linguistic choices and the various techniques of linguistic expressions at this. The study made a tape recording of selected
conversations from different people in the car park. Investigations reveal that the car park dealers make use of simple and compound complex sentences in Pidgin English and Ibibio dialect. Analysis on the car park discourse is based on frame analysis, turn taking and discourse markers. The study also
describes and identifies basic discursive patterns among participants in a car park discourse. The car park is seen as a different language community where deviant linguistic items, code-mixing and code–switching abound. Children who have a better future should however be discouraged from mixing
up too frequently with park dealers whose conversations are rooted mainly in Pidgin English.
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