MULTIVOCAL ELASTICITY AND SEMIOTIC FLUIDITY IN THE MORPHO-SEMANTIC SPECTRUM OF THE POLITICO-RELIGIOUS DISCOURSE OF NATHAN NYIRENDA’S SONG MWE MAKUFI

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Bemba, fluidity morpho-semantic multivocal politico-religious song Zambia

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Pethias Siame
Kwame Nkrumah University, Department of Literature & Languages, Kabwe, Zambia
Humphrey M. Kapau
Deptment of Arts, Languages and Literary Studies, University of Zambia

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The 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 analyse data. Multivocality, resemiotisation, and lexical morphology theoretical locale underpinned the analysis of the song in this article. The study shows 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 analyse the semanticity of musicology, it is also possible to analyze the morphology and other levels of linguistics using other theories such as lexical morphology. The study shows that the musician of Mwe Makufi Yandi ‘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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Siame , P. ., & Kapau, H. M. . (2024). MULTIVOCAL ELASTICITY AND SEMIOTIC FLUIDITY IN THE MORPHO-SEMANTIC SPECTRUM OF THE POLITICO-RELIGIOUS DISCOURSE OF NATHAN NYIRENDA’S SONG MWE MAKUFI. Kwame Nkrumah University Multi-Disciplinary Journal - Zambia, 1(2), 111–121. Retrieved from https://accessjournal.nkrumah.edu.zm/index.php/knuj/article/view/55
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