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Formas de tratamento nos manuais de português língua estrangeira: uma abordagem na perspetiva da metalinguagem semântica natural
Forms of Address in Portuguese as a Foreign Language Textbooks: Natural Semantic Metalanguage Approach

Author(s): Zuzanna Bułat Silva, Justyna Wiśniewska
Subject(s): Language studies, Foreign languages learning, Semantics, Pedagogy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: forms of address; natural semantic metalanguage (NSM); intercultural pragmatics; teaching approach; Portuguese as a foreign language;

Summary/Abstract: In this paper, starting from the methodological viewpoint of natural semantic metalanguage (NSM, see Wierzbicka 1996, 2013), we aim to describe how forms of address are used in Portuguese as a foreign language textbooks (European variety), investigate whether they comply with the real use of forms of address and with cultural norms of today’s Portuguese society, and propose NSM explications of their pragmatic and lexical meaning that would facilitate their acquisition. Our corpus of data contains examples taken from the PFL textbooks used for teaching students in Poland.

  • Issue Year: 22/2022
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 89-101
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Portuguese