Bahi-as-a -Discourse -Marker-in-Daily -Libyan-Arabic

Khadeja 7the hearer infers that the speaker is already convinced with her choice. Finally, ‘bahi’ was usedbased on a previous agreement between the two speakers, by then one speaker will say ‘bahi’which means ‘accordingly’ or ‘based on that’, then a consequence of all what took place willcome out. That is, the speaker above repeats the previously observed note in the story and uses‘bahi’ as a marker of reference to that and employs that in her findings about what is going tohappen next. Accordingly, the marker was used each time in a way that is relevant to the context.Hussein (2007) refers to relevance as an approach that connects thoughts and intentions ratherthan the expressed linguistic forms.Extract 3ايه الأولى كان ماشى وبعدين هذه .aYes at first he was walking, then thisباهى ، اوكى ، b.Bahi! (Ok!)كلهن ماشى .aHe is going in all of themايه ، حتى هذا دايرينه هذا ماشى هكى ، انقولوا باهى متلاَ‏ لما بينط وهذا امولى هكى ، ترا هديكا ، ترا هديكا ؟ .bYes, even this, they made him go this way, ‘bahi’ (in case) for example we can say thatwhen he tries to jump and in this one he is coming back , show me that one , show methat one.Analysis:In the conversation above, ‘bahi’ was first used giving the meaning of ‘ok!’ or ‘fine!’;giving the impression that initially, the hearer doesn’t mind what she heard but still she is fullyconvinced of her own opinion which may cause the speakers to go through further discussionuntil one of them is convinced by the other. The second use of ‘bahi’ was used as ‘in case of, thatis, in case something happened, then a consequent event is expected to happen too. In other