‘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...
Main Authors: | Biberauer, Theresa, van Heukelum, Marie-Louise, Duke, Lalia |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | Afrikaans |
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Stellenbosch University
2017-12-01
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Series: | Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics |
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Online Access: | https://spil.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/281 |
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