The CCs on the other hand, demonstrate that the interactants have had a meaningful interaction and that they can possibly engage in a similar encounter in the future. In this case, we set out to find out whether or not the market discourse opens with a greeting sequence. CCs demonstrate that the conversation can be initiated and that the interactants are willing to engage each other in a meaningful transaction. We argue that COs and CCs are related discursive functions which, even if they appear at opposite ends of the conversation, are important in binding the interaction as well as establishing and maintaining its coherence. In this chapter, we examine the structure of trader-customer Kiswahili COs and CCs in an attempt to reveal the structure of this discourse. We specifically hypothesized that the conversation structure of trader-customer Kiswahili discourse is pragmatically and contextually realizable and as such, is characterized by affective vocabulary, phatic lexical items and unique. In chapter one, we indicated that one of the principal objectives of this study is to examine the conversation structure of trader-customer Kiswahili discourse.
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