Open AccessPreliminary study about the rejection in the Brazilian and the Spanish cultures: external modifiers employed in email and private messages in Facebook
Author(s) -
Sara González Berrio,
Susana Martín Leralta,
Nildicéia Aparecida Rocha
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
textos en proceso
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2001-967X
DOI - 10.17710/tep.2018.4.2.4berrioleraltayrocha
Subject(s) - portuguese , brazilian portuguese , taxonomy (biology) , psychology , sociology , political science , linguistics , social psychology , gender studies , philosophy , botany , biology
This study is part of a larger research project, aimed at analyzing and comparing rejections within a corpus of emails and private Facebook messages among three groups of informants: natives speakers of Peninsular Spanish, native speakers of Brazilian Portuguese and Brazilian students of Spanish as a foreign language. The partial results presented here correspond to the piloting data of the study, carried out with the informants of the first two groups. Specifically, we provide a taxonomy of external modifiers present in rejections with different degrees of imposition, relational power, and social distance. Likewise, we analyze the use of these modifiers by Brazilian and Spanish native informants.