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Gogo Fairy Tales As Communicative Genres The University of Dodoma University of Dodoma Institutional Repository http://repository.udom.ac.tz Humanities Master Dissertations 2018 Gogo fairy tales as communicative genres Suleiman, Salama Rashid The University of Dodoma Suleiman, S. R., (2018). Gogo fairy tales as communicative genres. Dodoma: The University of Dodoma http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12661/1397 Downloaded from UDOM Institutional Repository at The University of Dodoma, an open access institutional repository. GOGO FAIRY TALES AS COMMUNICATIVE GENRES SALAMA RASHID SULEIMAN MASTERS OF ARTS IN LINGUISTICS THE UNIVERSITY OF DODOMA OCTOBER, 2018 GOGO FAIRY TALES AS COMMUNICATIVE GENRES BY SALAMA RASHID SULEIMAN A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS IN LINGUISTICS THE UNIVERSITY OF DODOMA OCTOBER, 2018 DECLARATION AND COPYRIGHT I, Salama Rashid Suleiman, declare that this dissertation is my own original work and that it has not been presented and will not be presented to any other university for similar or any other degree award. Signature……………… No part of this dissertation may be produced, stored in any retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means without prior written permission of the author or the University of Dodoma. If transformed for publication in any other format shall be acknowledged that, this work has been submitted for degree award at the University of Dodoma”. i CERTIFICATION The undersigned certifies that he has read and hereby recommends for acceptance by the University of Dodoma, a Dissertation entitled The Gogo Fairy Tales as Communicative Genres, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in Linguistics of the University of Dodoma. ……………………………………………. Dr. Stanislav Beletskiy (SUPERVISOR) Date:……………………………. ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The accomplishment of this study is the result of the supervision and assistance I received from numerous people. First of all, I would like to explain my sincere gratitude to the Almighty God for His abundant grace that enabled me to do this study. Further, my appreciation and grateful thanks go to my Supervisor, Dr. Stanislav Beletskiy, for his guidance, constant supervision, valuable advice and clarification during all stages of doing this work. His patience, constructive ideas and motivation helped me to complete this dissertation. Moreover, I would like to express my gratitude to my informants. These are residents of the village of Hombolo and the leader of the village. I should also thank Dr. Sane, my lecturer and adviser, during the course of conducting this research. He has instilled in me the basic knowledge and skills on how to conduct research in languages. He put, in my mind, the valuable foundation in conducting research.I would also like to send my heartful thanks to my colleagues, particularly Mr. Hashir M. Hashir, Mr. Rashid Suleiman Mohd and Mr. Hilal Abdul-malik for their constructive comments and ideas on this study. I express my sincere gratitude to my beloved colleagues, for their devoted and faithfully hearts of encouragement during my studies. May our Almighty God bless them! Finally, my special appreciation goes to my lovely husband, Muhammed H. Swaleh, my son, Suleiman Omar Suleiman, and my daughter, Murshayna Muhammed, for their moral support and for shouldering the most of the home responsibilities during my absence. May Almighty God bless them! DEDICATION iii I dedicate this work to my beloved sisters and brothers, Saada Juma Said, Maryam Rashid Suleiman, Asha Rashid Suleiman, Ghaniya Rashid Suleiman, Amour Rashid Suleiman, Salum Rashid Suleiman, and Massoud Rashid Suleiman, who paid much attention for me during my school time, and my beloved husband and children who built a bridge for my success in education. iv ABSTRACT This study report has shown the findings of the study of the Gogo fairy tales in Gogo community of Dodoma Region. In particular, the study makes a description and analysis of the linguistic practices and language used in Gogo fairy tales. In doing so, the study collected the fairy tales of Gogo community, and creates a data base of Gogo fairy tales drawing extensively from the theory of communicative genres that helped in the analysis of the linguistic and structural communicative features of Gogo fairy tales. Using qualitative research approach, data were generated through interviews, observations, focused group discussions, and audio visual recording. 10 informants (i.e. 2 males and 8 females) were purposively sampled from Hombolo Village in Dodoma Urban to inform the research. The analysis of the data obtained revealed that the Gogo fairy tales are rich in linguistic and structural features. These are marked by linguistic structures, like turn-taking, stress, intonation, pitch, overlapping, interactional unit, silence, pauses, strengthening, aspiration, latching, and other parentheses. Other features recognised in Gogo fairy tales are the initiation rituals, the use of songs, feedback, non verbal features and other vocalizations, which are all used to make the completion of the act of narrating the stories. Further, the study has discovered that the Gogo people have used fairy tales as a tool to create and control morals and customs of their future generations. Generally, the study provides information useful for developing a new understanding of Gogo fairy tales as communicative genre in the field of linguistics. In the end, the study recommends that there is a need of documentation and description of the communicative genres that circulate within societies through their local languages. v TABLE OF CONTENTS DECLARATION AND COPYRIGHT ........................................................................ i CERTIFICATION ...................................................................................................... ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ....................................................................................... iii DEDICATION ........................................................................................................... iii ABSTRACT ................................................................................................................ v TABLE OF CONTENTS ........................................................................................... vi LIST OF TABLES ..................................................................................................... xi LIST OF FIGURES .................................................................................................. xii LIST OF APPENDICES .......................................................................................... xiii LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS .................................................................................. xiv CHAPTER ONE ....................................................................................................... 1 INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY .................................. 1 1.1 Introduction ........................................................................................................... 1 1.2 Gogo Language: A Brief Overview ...................................................................... 1 1.2.1 Geographical Location ....................................................................................... 1 1.2.2 Linguistic Classification .................................................................................... 3 1.2.3 Dialects in Gogo Language ................................................................................ 4 1.2.4 Structural Features ............................................................................................. 5 1.2.5 Orthography ....................................................................................................... 5 1.2.6 Vowels and Tones .............................................................................................. 7 1.2.7 Consonants ......................................................................................................... 8 1.2.8 Syllable Structure and Phonetic Changes ........................................................ 10 1.2.9 Nominal Morphology ....................................................................................... 13 1.2.10 Verbal Morphology ........................................................................................ 18 1.3 Statement of the Problem .................................................................................... 25 1.4 Objectives of the Study ....................................................................................... 26 1.5 Research Questions ............................................................................................. 27 1.6 Significance of the Problem ................................................................................ 27 1.7 Scope of the Study .............................................................................................. 28 1.8 Limitations of the Study ...................................................................................... 29 vi 1.9 Concluding Remarks ........................................................................................... 29 CHAPTER TWO .................................................................................................... 31 LITERATURE REVIEW AND THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK ........................ 31 2.1 Introduction ......................................................................................................... 31 2.2 Literature
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