Conversational Analysis of Conflict-based Arguments in Tunde Kelani’s Campus Queen

Emerging researches on conflict studies in different areas of human communication have shown that diverse forms of verbal conversations involving conflicts are aspects of social interaction worthwhile to be studied. Previous studies on Tunde Kelani’s films and on linguistic studies have not focused on a Conversational Analysis of conflict-based arguments in Nigerian films. Based on this premise, this study conducts a Conversational Analysis of conflict-based arguments in Tunde Kelani’s Campus Queen with a view to discovering different conversational patterns inherent in selected conflict-based arguments in the film. Sacks, Schegl off and Jefferson’s Conversational Analysis was the adopted framework. Three (3) conflict-based arguments were selected for analysis from Tunde Kelani’s Campus Queen. Findings from the study reveal that conflict-based arguments have basic features of Conversational Analysis such as turn taking, sequence organisation, adjacency pairs, and insertion sequence. The analysis also reveals that opening, conflict stimulation, conflict sustenance, conflict aversion and closing are five phases that characterise the overall structure of the selected conflict-based arguments. This study presents conflict-based arguments as orderly and valid forms of interaction despite their peculiar patterns. The study will assist future researchers interested in the field of Conversational Analysis and conflict studies understand the nature of conflict-based arguments.