Role Switch in Lecturer-Students Classroom Interaction: A Corpus-Based Study of Self-Referential Personal Pronouns

Akoto, Osei Yaw

doi:10.1007/s41701-023-00142-1

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“…Personal pronouns, such as "I" and "You", have been studied by various scholars in areas of language use, such as in academic lectures (Friginal, Lee & Robertson 2017;Akoto 2020;Akoto, Oppong-Asare & Fordjour 2021;Akoto, Amoakohene & Oppong-Asare, 2021;Akoto & Afful 2022;Akoto, 2023), speeches (Bennet, 1995;Chen & Hu, 2022) and literary works (Balossi, 2014), because of their roles in indicating the speakers' and interlocuters' level of engagement, commitment, and connection in discourses (Akoto, Oppong-Asare, & Fordjour, 2021a;Akoto & Afful, 2022). In this study, we, primarily, examine the semantic implications of the indexical pronouns, I and You, in Ghanaian Church musicone Determining the reference of "I" involves necessarily ascribing a context of utterance to the expression, namely in the case of "I" we need only determine the speaker of the expression to determine the referent.…”

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Exploring I-You Indexicals in Ghanaian Church Music

Dwamena,

Gyimah Manu,

Freitas

2023

LLT Journal

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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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