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EXPLORING PERSONAL DEIXIS IN WESTERN MUSIC A CORPUSBASED STUDY

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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/grr.2020(V-IV).11      10.31703/grr.2020(V-IV).11      Published : Dec 2020

Exploring Personal Deixis in Western Music: A Corpus-Based Study

Abstract

    Pragmatics informs us about the relationship between the use of language and its context. This relationship is identified through person deixis. This research interprets the reference meaning of personal deixis and looks at the most frequent personal deixis used in the lyrics of male and female English singers. This research uses a corpus method for the analysis. The data was collected from online sources to compile corpora of songs sung by male and female singers. The research has adopted both qualitative and quantitative approaches for the analysis of corpora. The corpus was tagged using parts-of-speech tagger (POS Tagger) and analyzed using AntConc software. The findings suggest that personal deixis are frequently used by both male and female singers.

    Pragmatics, Deixis, Song Lyrics, Western Music, Corpus-Based Study

    (1) Arshad Ali
    Assistant Professor, Department of English, National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad, Pakistan.
    (2) Athar Rashid
    Assistant Professor, Department of Governance & Public Policy, National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad, Pakistan.
    (3) Ameer Sultan
    Lecturer, Department of English, International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
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    CHICAGO : Ali, Arshad, Athar Rashid, and Ameer Sultan. 2020. "Exploring Personal Deixis in Western Music: A Corpus-Based Study." Global Regional Review, V (IV): 106-117 doi: 10.31703/grr.2020(V-IV).11

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    HARVARD : ALI, A., RASHID, A. & SULTAN, A. 2020. Exploring Personal Deixis in Western Music: A Corpus-Based Study. Global Regional Review, V, 106-117.

MHRA

    MHRA : Ali, Arshad, Athar Rashid, and Ameer Sultan. 2020. "Exploring Personal Deixis in Western Music: A Corpus-Based Study." Global Regional Review, V: 106-117

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    MLA : Ali, Arshad, Athar Rashid, and Ameer Sultan. "Exploring Personal Deixis in Western Music: A Corpus-Based Study." Global Regional Review, V.IV (2020): 106-117 Print.

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    OXFORD : Ali, Arshad, Rashid, Athar, and Sultan, Ameer (2020), "Exploring Personal Deixis in Western Music: A Corpus-Based Study", Global Regional Review, V (IV), 106-117

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    TURABIAN : Ali, Arshad, Athar Rashid, and Ameer Sultan. "Exploring Personal Deixis in Western Music: A Corpus-Based Study." Global Regional Review V, no. IV (2020): 106-117. https://doi.org/10.31703/grr.2020(V-IV).11