Philip Kwame Freitas
Department of English, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana

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EXPLORING I-YOU INDEXICALS IN GHANAIAN CHURCH MUSIC Daniel Ofosu Dwamena; James Gyimah Manu; Philip Kwame Freitas
LLT Journal: A Journal on Language and Language Teaching Vol 26, No 2 (2023): October 2023
Publisher : English Education Study Programme of Sanata Dharma University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24071/llt.v26i2.6767

Abstract

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.