‘Ja-nee. No, I'm fine’: a note on YES and NO in South Africa

‘Ja-nee. No, I'm fine’: a note on YES and NO in South Africa

This paper considers some unusual uses of NO and YES observed in South African English (SAE) and other languages spoken in South Africa. Our objective is to highlight the fundamentally speaker-hearer-oriented nature of many of these elements, and to offer a formal perspective on their use. We also a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Biberauer, Theresa, van Heukelum, Marie-Louise, Duke, Lalia
Format: Article
Language:Afrikaans
Published: Stellenbosch University 2017-12-01
Series:Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics
Subjects:
negation
affirmation
speaker-hearerperspective
clause structure
pragmaticalisation
Online Access:https://spil.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/281
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Summary:This paper considers some unusual uses of NO and YES observed in South African English (SAE) and other languages spoken in South Africa. Our objective is to highlight the fundamentally speaker-hearer-oriented nature of many of these elements, and to offer a formal perspective on their use. We also aim to highlight the value of pursuing more detailed investigations of these and other perspectival elements employed in SAE and other languages spoken in South Africa.
ISSN:1027-3417
2223-9936

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