ATAR Notes: Forum
VCE Stuff => VCE English Studies => VCE Subjects + Help => VCE English Language => Topic started by: maturegambino on November 04, 2013, 08:31:55 pm
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A few practice exams I've encountered this year have often referred to spoken transcripts wherein a speaker will say "yeah, nah".
A question will then ask what is the purpose of this phrase and it ALWAYS trips me up!
What exactly does this mean?
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In my experience, 'yeah-nah' can either be used in an affirmative or negative sense.
Affirmative: "yeah" is meant, and the nah is used as a speech disfluency (like 'um').
Negative: "nah" is meant, and the yeah acts as a speech disfluency.
Disclaimer: I've haven't studied Eng Lang.
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Check out these links: http://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2013/05/yeah-no.html
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/06/10/1086749839972.html
http://chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2012/06/14/yeah-no/
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awesome! thank you both! :)