Language and Social Relationship in Brazilian Portuguese: The Pragmatics of Politeness

by Dale April Koike

Book Overview

"Give me the salt" and "Please pass the salt" make the same request, but in a polite situation the first utterance may give offense, while the second may not. How and why such differences in wording and intonation, in a particular context, produce different effects is the concern of pragmatics, the area of linguistics that deals with how speech is used in interaction. In this innovative study of pragmatics in Brazilian Portuguese, Dale Koike analyzes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292768974
• ISBN13: 9780292768970
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"