2.2 Inviting forms as pre-closing sections

2.2 Inviting forms as pre-closing sections

2.2.1 Readiness checking forms

Invitations, which are said not to represent units or elements within conversational sections, in fact, constitute a part of conversations in Tashelheit. It has been observed that forms of inviting in Tashelheit usually occur at the end of conversations .In support of this; we have mentioned that pre-closing sub-sequences check the readiness of an interlocutor to close the conversation. Therefore, the point of all this is that forms of inviting in Tashelheit represent units in the form of pre-closing sections within conversations in some cases if not in all.

For example, we can see that the purpose of invitations in the following conversation is to check the readiness of the interlocutor to end the conversation:
(1)

T1 F: rwαћ sə zar ?mklı ?
Come to where lunch
((Asking for ending the conversation
negatively by inviting the partner to
continue it at the lunch table))

T2 G: ?uĥu:j , ?a’kı’sərbћ rε’bı
No ing you win God
No thank you
((Accept to end the conversation ))

T3 F: ĥja , ?’kı3αn rε’bı
So ing you help God
Ok goodbye

T4 G: ?j3αwn rε’bı
Ing him help God
Bye


This section usually occurs at the end of a conversation especially at the parting of two interlocutors. Indeed, it is widely apparent that in order to end the conversation and be separated, the first participant F invited his partner to lunch since it was noon, but the other participant G refuses; hence, he contradictorily shows his readiness to close the conversation. In brief, forms of inviting constitute pre-closing sections in this language.


2.2.2 Showing intimacy

The inviting pre-closing sections are intended to show intimacy. Undoubtedly, the social relationship among Tashelheit native speakers is reinforced by various verbal patterns among them the inviting forms, which are most of the time situated at the end of conversations. Thus, if a person feels that another one is a member of this community; whether it is a village community, a close relationship such as being friends, or a family; then, the first person feels compelled to invite the other person, either for lunch or for another meal
Especially it they are close to his house due to an unconscious social obligation. Indeed, this sense of belonging very often urges natives of our society to perform these kinds of verbal behaviours to show how deep the following is among speakers as shown in the following conversation:


(2)

T1 F: ja´lαĥ sə ´zar ?mnsı
Come to where dinner
((Asking politely for permission
to end the conversation))


T2 G: ?uĥu:j ,u:rasufıR
No not can I
((Accept to en dit))


T3 F: ?uĥu:j dursaz ra´darnR s´du :s
No occasion this must us go you
No this time you must go with me
((regretting respectfully to end the conversation))


T4 G: ?uĥu:j ?a’kı’sərbћ rε’bı ´dur jadnıή
No ing you win God occasion another
No thank you another time

T5 F: ja´lαĥ ?awa
Come ohh
((showing high level of intimacy))








In this sample, the first speaker feels compelled to invite his partner; on the one hand to show their mutual social relationship degree, on the other hand to finish their conversation politely and respectfully.

2.3 Inviting forms as pre-opening sections

2.3.1 Invitation acceptance

Having shown how an inviting form in Tasheheit may constitute a pre-closing section within a conversation; now, what if an interlocutor have accepted the invitation ? If it is the case, the situation, then, would completely change, and the pre-closing section may be inverted into a pre-opening section, or rather what we may call a “pre-continuum unit” in that they end a conversation and begin another. For this reason, it is just a matter of a continuation as we shall see in the conversation below:


(3)

T1 F: madə sul tskərt ə ?ı: wakal
What later done you for earth
Concerning earth wht have you done?

T2 G : 3ədəlRət ə sul ləwrak
Register it at last papers
I officially register it at last

T3 F: rwαћ sə zar ?mklı ?
Come to where lunch
((Asking for ending the conversation))

T4 G : bısmı ´lαЋ
In name God
ok

T5 F : madə sul tskərə ləћsanja ?
What further done Hasania
WHAT ABOUT Hasania?

Logically speaking, if a form of invitation is merely a pre-closing section, then, any conversation would stop immediately after an inviting section. Contradictorily, neither forms of inviting are only pre-closing units within conversations, nor they are merely units for stopping conversations. Therefore, there is no doubt in saying that invitations may play a role of pre-opening units as in the case illustrated above.

At last, we assume that this kind of inviting, the more or less, is completely different from the formal way of performing an invitation; in other words they are merely socio-culturally adopted verbal patterns .Apart from this, formal invitations represent independent topics for certain conversations intended for an inviting objective .However, our case is with invitations which are most of the time rejected by the invited person especially at the end of a conversation.

2.3.2 Summary

In brief, we have been arguing in this section that inviting forms in Tashelheit as verbal behaviours may be sub-sequences within conversational units. Accordingly, we have demonstrated how they are pre-closing units on the one side, and how they may become pre-opening unit on the other one.