Move Analysis of Awards Acceptance Speeches in The 22nd Vodafone Ghana Music Awards Ceremony
It has become a tradition that any musician who wins an award delivers a speech to acknowledge those who contributed to the award’s success. This has led to the emergence of Awards Acceptance Speeches (AASs). Despite the recent popularity of genre analysis on professional genres, AASs as a genre, h...
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It has become a tradition that any musician who wins an award delivers a speech to acknowledge those who contributed to the award’s success. This has led to the emergence of Awards Acceptance Speeches (AASs). Despite the recent popularity of genre analysis on professional genres, AASs as a genre, have not been researched, especially in the Ghanaian context. To this end, this paper sought to examine the generic structure of the AASs of Ghanaian musicians in the 22nd Vodafone Ghana Music Awards Ceremony. 20 AASs were sampled for the study. The study adopted Swales’ (1990) approach to move analysis, focusing on the generic structure. The analysis revealed that Thanking move was the most frequent. A 6 move-structure was identified. The study concluded with implications for successful acculturation of musicians and other entertainment industry players in their discourse communities and recommendations for further studies.
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| spelling | doaj-art-a1f09c7345234dccaa58a06187353d122025-02-03T01:15:11ZengEnglish Department of Antasari State Islamic UniversityLET: Linguistics, Literature and English Teaching Journal2086-96062549-24542023-12-01132Move Analysis of Awards Acceptance Speeches in The 22nd Vodafone Ghana Music Awards CeremonyJohn York-Williams0Joseph Benjamin Archibald Afful1Emmanuel Mensah Bonsu2Department of English, University of Cape Coast, GhanaDepartment of English, University of Cape Coast, GhanaDepartment of English, University of Cape Coast, Ghana It has become a tradition that any musician who wins an award delivers a speech to acknowledge those who contributed to the award’s success. This has led to the emergence of Awards Acceptance Speeches (AASs). Despite the recent popularity of genre analysis on professional genres, AASs as a genre, have not been researched, especially in the Ghanaian context. To this end, this paper sought to examine the generic structure of the AASs of Ghanaian musicians in the 22nd Vodafone Ghana Music Awards Ceremony. 20 AASs were sampled for the study. The study adopted Swales’ (1990) approach to move analysis, focusing on the generic structure. The analysis revealed that Thanking move was the most frequent. A 6 move-structure was identified. The study concluded with implications for successful acculturation of musicians and other entertainment industry players in their discourse communities and recommendations for further studies. https://103.180.95.17/index.php/let/article/view/10175Acceptance of awards speechMove analysisMusic awardsSpoken genreThanking |
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| title | Move Analysis of Awards Acceptance Speeches in The 22nd Vodafone Ghana Music Awards Ceremony |
| title_full | Move Analysis of Awards Acceptance Speeches in The 22nd Vodafone Ghana Music Awards Ceremony |
| title_fullStr | Move Analysis of Awards Acceptance Speeches in The 22nd Vodafone Ghana Music Awards Ceremony |
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| title_short | Move Analysis of Awards Acceptance Speeches in The 22nd Vodafone Ghana Music Awards Ceremony |
| title_sort | move analysis of awards acceptance speeches in the 22nd vodafone ghana music awards ceremony |
| topic | Acceptance of awards speech Move analysis Music awards Spoken genre Thanking |
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