Investigating Responses to Compliments by Brazilian Portuguese Speaking EFL Learners: A Contrastive Analysis

Autor/in	de Lima Zanella, Marisa
Titel	Investigating Responses to Compliments by Brazilian Portuguese Speaking EFL Learners: A Contrastive Analysis
Quelle	In: Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 8 (2017) 1, S.215-220 (6 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2203-4714
Schlagwörter	Portuguese; Contrastive Linguistics; North American English; Language Variation; Speech Acts; Pragmatics; Foreign Countries; Student Attitudes; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Private Schools; Qualitative Research; Second Language Instruction; Case Studies; Questionnaires; High School Students; Brazil + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Portugiesischunterricht; Linguistics; Kontrastive Linguistik; Amerikanisches Englisch; Sprachenvielfalt; Sprechakt; Pragmalinguistik; Ausland; Schülerverhalten; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Private school; Privatschule; Qualitative Forschung; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Fragebogen; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Brasilien
Abstract	This paper reports a study on politeness strategies of Brazilian Portuguese speakers and American English speakers regarding their responses to compliments. The aim of this research is to gain an insight into the politeness characteristics of Brazilian Portuguese speakers by analyzing how Brazilian students react when receiving compliments. It also aims to investigate how politeness from Brazilian Portuguese speakers differs from politeness of American English speakers when receiving compliments. The population for this research consists of 12 students with intermediate and upper-intermediate levels of EFL from the "Cooperative de Trabalho Magna," a private school in Brazil. The study followed a descriptive and interpretive qualitative research method, where 133 answers were analyzed and then contrasted with Chen's (1993) study of politeness strategies between American English and Chinese speakers. This study shows that, unlike American English speakers, Brazilian Portuguese speakers need to justify and give reasons for the compliment received. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01