Open AccessAtenuação de atos de fala diretivos em livros de PLE os procedimentos acompanhantes
Author(s) -
Patrícia Mariano Marcos,
Paulo Pinheiro-Correa
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
linguarum arena
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2182-973X
pISSN - 1647-8770
DOI - 10.21747/1647-8770/are12v3
Subject(s) - politeness , brazilian portuguese , linguistics , point (geometry) , portuguese , pragmatics , face (sociological concept) , computer science , psychology , sociology , philosophy , mathematics , geometry
In this paper, a specific pragmatic type of request mitigation strategies (orders and requests) is analyzed in the dialogues of two Portuguese textbooks for foreigners, namely, the accompanying procedures, as classified by Kerbrat-Orecchioni (2005, 2006). The work is based on speech acts theory (Austin, 1962/1990; Searle, 1979/2002), on Goffman’s (1967/1980) concept of face and on Brown and Levinson’s (1987) concepts of positive and negative politeness. The results showed that mitigation strategies included not only lexical resources but also reformulation procedures and that the use of moderators, such as “please”, was among the most used lexical mitigation resources. The results also point out failures in the pragmatic treatment of the issue in the books analyzed.