Discourse Analysis of wəddi mən, Oral Game of Honeymoon in the Eastern Tigrai
| dc.contributor.advisor | Yimam, Baye (Prof.) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Gebre-Egziabher, Hagos | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-09-25T07:02:21Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-08T04:33:51Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-09-25T07:02:21Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-08T04:33:51Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-08 | |
| dc.description.abstract | In the rural areas of the Eastern Tigrai, when people visit the honeymooners, they often prefer to play an oral game called wəddi mən, which means 'whose son is...', and functionally, 'whose bridegroom/ bride is..., fiancé/ fiancée is...', as an entertainment and socio-linguistic event. This paper investigates on the Discourses that are used in wəddi mən. The main objective of this research is to thematically describe the Discourses of wəddi mən and their functions. wəddi mən is an event that has currently been replaced by some modern entertaining games such as play cards and modern music. Because this socio-linguistic practice is still oral, it has seriously been endangered. Therefore, it needs to be researched and transformed into written status. Thus, this work may be playing its role in documenting this oral language use for the first time. Conceptually, this research considered Osisanwo's (2005) Discourse features cited in Osoba & Sobola (2014: 203). These features are: conversation, Discourse participants, opening and closing of Discourse, holding floor, turn-taking, overlapping, speech errors, repair mechanism, role sharing, elicitation in talk, and adjacency pairs. Halliday's theory of systematic functional linguistics (SFL), an approach and theory that views languages as a social phenomenon which is more concerned with the functions and meanings than with the structural aspects of languages, is theoretically framed to this research. This research is designed based on the descriptive approach of qualitative research design. The data for this research are gathered from the remote rural areas of purposely selected six Weredas of the Eastern Tigrai. The main tools for gathering the data for this research have mainly been ethnographic observation and semi-structured interviews. This study found out different sociolinguistic and cultural practices reflected by the Discourses used in wəddi mən. It has thematized the Discourses based on their functions and meanings. The participants portray the issues of power assignment, power hierarchy, power exercise and power transfer in their interactional communications using the Discourses. This research also found out the Discourses of naming and addressing in wəddi mən in reflection to the cultures of naming and addressing of their community. It has iii also analyzed how the participants use the Discourses that show how people make and fix appointments with other interlocutors thereby reflecting the culture of division of labor among the masculine and feminine genders in their society. Moreover, this study has found out some Discourses that reflect the attitude and the feeling of the bridegroom and the bride towards each other. Besides, it has come up with findings of taboo Discourses that are used by the participants as taboo as they are for entertainment and life skill training in their interaction. Furthermore, this research has also analyzed gendered Discourses; for example, Discourse of sex preference at first birth in their interaction as a reflection of the culture of the society. The other concept which this research has come up with is the Discourses of politeness during the interactional communications of the participants. In their communications, the participants address each other using honorific terms not to belittle their interlocutors. Finally, the participants conclude the game using the Discourses of blessing as illustrated in the Discourses in 4.17. In the game of wəddi mən, it is the bride who blesses the end of the game. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/22456 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | AAU | en_US |
| dc.subject | research is to thematically describe the Discourses of wəddi mən and their functions | en_US |
| dc.title | Discourse Analysis of wəddi mən, Oral Game of Honeymoon in the Eastern Tigrai | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |