Assertive acts and politeness: different strategies used by Brazilians and Chileans in an academic context
Journal Title: Textos en Proceso - Year 2016, Vol 2, Issue 1
Abstract
This paper aims at describing and contrasting pragmatic strategies focused on how politeness is shown – both in Portuguese and Spanish – within speaking communities from São Paulo, Brazil, and Santiago, Chile while investigating which features are used by interlocutors (undergraduates in study groups) in their face-work during assertive. In order to do so, our proposed methodology is aimed at outlining the core of discursive constructions. The corpus consists of about 25 hours of videotaped undergraduate study group meetings in Chile and Brazil and 80 social behavior tests (Hernández Flores, 2002; Contreras, 2004 y Bernal, 2007). In a synchronous analysis, we found that Brazilian individuals tend to convey an image of kindness, cooperation and similarity in managing their self-image. An image of order and hierarchy stood out among Chilean interlocutors. As to inter-relationship management, contrasts and similarities were noted between a few pragmatic strategies: regarding the assertive attenuation and intensification, self-repetition mechanisms and hetero-repetition. The results – which were supported by studies from other behavioral sciences, corpus analysis and answers from informants of social behavior tests – can indicate the projection of experiences that are specific to a corpus to a politeness style comprising other communication situations without forgoing the immense diversity of the use of language (Bravo, 2004a).
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Adriana Marcelle de Andrade Freitas
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