Sa’idu Faru and His Subordinate Mu’azu in the Song Waƙar Mamman Sarkin Kudu: A Multilogue Implicature in a Dialogue

This is pragmatic research which focuses on the implicature in Sa’idu Faru’s song. The song is a musical composition performed by the human voice. The song may be performed by a solo singer, a lead singer supported by background singers (backing vocalists) a duet, a trio, or more voices singing in harmony. Apart from the melody that the voices carry in songs, meanings in the conversations in a song play a crucial role in identifying an implicature. Implicature are utterances and what is understood from them. As it is known in all his songs, Sa’idu Faru is the lead in his songs as in the song Waƙar Mamman Sarkin Kudu supported by vocalists, one of them is Mu’azu. However, in this song, as provided in some lines, Mu’azu is as important as the lead singer, which also, the vocalists are part that provides vocal harmony with the lead singer. If Mu’azu can be a vocalist like any other, then it is a dialogue between the lead and the vocalists but in this case where Mu’azu takes control in the conversation, then the song may be termed a duet. The conversational implicature in the song guided the researcher to understand that the song is a duet. The paper attempts to answer questions such as how are successive utterances related, who controls the discourse, how he does it and, how other participants take control. Gricean Maxims are adopted in the analyses of this paper.