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"'Eish' It's Getting Really Interesting": Borrowed Interjections in South African English
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Foluke Olayinka Unuabonah; Mampoi Irene Mabena – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2024
This article offers a descriptive account of seven interjections, "eish", "yho", "tjo", "sho", "hayi", "hau", and "mxm", which are adopted from different local South African languages into South African English. It investigates the frequencies, orthography, syntactic position,…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Syntax, Pragmatics, English