Citation :

Pethias Siame, 2023. "Multivocal Elasticity and Semiotic Fluidity in the Morpho-Semantic Spectrum of the Politico-Religious Discourse of Nathan Nyirenda’s song Mwe Makufi" ESP International Journal of Science, Humanities & Management Studies(ESP-IJSHMS)  Volume 1, Issue 2: 10-17.

Abstract :

Thee paper analyses the multivocal elasticity and semiotic fluidity in the morpho-semantic spectrum of the politico-religious discourse of Nathan Nyirenda’s song Mwe Makufi Yandi ‘My Knees’. The song is in the Bemba language which is spoken in Zambia and is classified as M42 (Guthrie, 1948). A qualitative approach, document analysis, and desktop research methods were used to collect and analyze data. Multivocality, resemiotisation, and lexical morphology theoretical locale underpinned the analysis of the song in the article. The study shows that there are rich messages in the lyrics of Zambian politico-religious songs such as Nathan Nyirenda’s Mwe Makufi Yandi's ‘My Knees’. The analysis also reveals that apart from using multivocality and resemiotisation to analyze the semanticity of musicology, it is also possible to analyze the morphology and other levels of linguistics using other theories such as lexical morphology. We note that the musician of Mwe Makufi Yandi's ‘My Knees’ used several noun class prefixes, verbal extensions, and figurative language to present the elasticity and fluidity of the multivocal politico-religious discourses.

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Keywords :

Bemba, Fluidity, Morpho-Semantic, Multivocal, Politico-Religious Song, Zambia.