A Conversational Analysis of Turn-taking System of Prophet Muhammd’s (PBUH) Hadith

Normally, when people want to exchange thoughts, ideas, beliefs, or even for the sake of talk only , they normally use conversations to fulfil their needs. This research tries to find out whether the system of turn taking apply to Prophetic Hadiths or not. Through the system of analysis, two models will be used; Sacks, Schegloff and Jeffersons (1974) turn- taking strategies and; Sinclair and Coulthards (1975) rank scale model. These two models will be applied on 30 bilateral Prophetic Hadiths that are collected from Al-Sahihayn, Bukhari and Muslim. Twenty of the Hadiths occurred between the Prophet (PBUH) and males, eight of them with females and two of them with kids. The reason behind collecting hadiths with both genders and with different ages is to specify which moves and exchanges are used more and by which type of gender group