EXPLORING I-YOU INDEXICALS IN GHANAIAN CHURCH MUSIC

Daniel Ofosu Dwamena, James Gyimah Manu, Philip Kwame Freitas

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Indexicals are important to contextual inference and generally, in semantic interpretation (Hanks, 1999). The present study set out to examine the use of the I-You indexical pronouns in Ghanaian Church Music. It was revealed that the I-Y spheres of the indexicals received relative frequencies of 4.55% and 3.35% in the data. Again, the study showed various referents of the I-You indexicals and their implication in the data based on their contextual and co-textual cues. The study extends knowledge on the subject of indexicality.


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church music, Ghana, indexicality, indexicals, pronouns

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