Gogo Fairy Tales As Communicative Genres

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.