REQUESTS AND MITIGATION: A COMPARISON BETWEEN ITALIAN AND BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE

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  • Elisabetta Santoro Universidade de São Paulo

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https://doi.org/10.7203/Normas.v7i2.11173

Keywords:

Requests, Mitigation, Cross-Cultural Pragmatics, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese

Abstract

In the perspective of Cross-Cultural Pragmatics, the study focuses on the speech act of the request and is based on data collected through a written DCT (Discourse Completion Test), sent electronically to native speakers of Italian and Brazilian Portuguese in their respective mother tongue. Informants were asked to write what they would have said in the described situations. The main variables were rank of imposition and social distance between the interlocutors. The aim of the research, which thanks to the instrument used allows to collect a large number of data and is expandable and replicable, is to analyze contrastively the data collected in the two languages, identifying the presence of modifiers in the request and the effect of the chosen variables, in order to observe similarities and differences, and above all, occurrences that may represent also a reference point for future research. This paper will present the first results based on a sample of 30 native speakers of Italian and 30 of Brazilian Portuguese.

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Published

2017-12-20

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Santoro, E. (2017). REQUESTS AND MITIGATION: A COMPARISON BETWEEN ITALIAN AND BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE. Normas, 7(2), 179–204. https://doi.org/10.7203/Normas.v7i2.11173
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Vol. 7 No. 2 (2017): Lenguaje vago y atenuación II

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