The illocutionary act of complaint in interlanguage pragmatics: a case study
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https://doi.org/10.7203/qf.0.19077Keywords:
pragmatics, interlanguage, illocutionary acts, complaint, portuguese foreign language (ple).Abstract
The current paper presents a study that analyzes the illocutionary act of complaint performed by Spanish speakers of Portuguese as a Foreign Language (PLE). It describes the act of complaint by (i) identifying its semantic information (Murphy & Neu, 1996); (ii) tracing realization trends regarding the degree of face-threat (Olshtain & Weinbach, 1993); and (iii) pointing out the main linguistic mechanisms used. Data analysis allows us to draw some conclusions, namely: (i) formal and informal contexts present different semantic formulas; (ii) language choices are highly conditioned by the variables ‘social distance’ and ‘power’; (iii) courtesy strategies are mostly used in formal contexts and may even be absent in informal contexts.
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