Politeness strategies in refusals to requests: a study on Brazilian Portuguese and Italian
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2238-8281.v0i30p61-79Keywords:
Politeness, Speech acts, Refusal, RequestAbstract
This paper analyzes courtesy strategies to be found in speech acts of refusal of requests in Brazilian Portuguese and Italian. The results point towards the relevance of the teaching of pragmatic aspects to students of foreign languagesDownloads
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