Vol.1, No2, Dec,2023-Article-4

ABSTRACT:

This study seeks to explore the use of adjacency pairs in Ola Rotimi`s Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again and The gods Are Not to Blame. A secondary data was used to analyse this study. A purposive sampling method was used to collect the instances of types ofadjacency pairs, toners and insertion sequences used in the aforementioned texts. The collection and analysis of data in both texts create a gap for this research work . A qualitative descriptive research design was used to collect and analyse the derived data of this study. This research work is anchored on MAK Halliday's Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and it is drawn from Conversation Analysis (CA) approach. The finding of the study reveals the effective and consistent use of adjacency pairs such as question-answer, summon -answer, request-acceptance, question-refusal, announcement-declaration, assumption-clarification and request-refusal in the in-talk-interactions that occur among the characters in both texts. These types of adjacency pairs are used by the characters in various parts of both texts in order to ensure the proper exchange of ideas and thoughts are communicated and rationally expressed as revealed in the texts. The finding of the study also shows the use of up toners, down toners and insertion sequences in both texts.