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2021; University of Porto; Volume: 12; Linguagem: Inglês

10.21747/1647-8770/are12v3

2182-973X

Patrícia Mariano Marcos, Paulo Pinheiro-Correa,

Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition

In this paper, a specific pragmatic type of request mitigation strategies (orders and requests) is analyzed in the dialogues of two Portuguese textbooks for foreigners, namely, the accompanying procedures, as classified by Kerbrat-Orecchioni (2005, 2006). The work is based on speech acts theory (Austin, 1962/1990; Searle, 1979/2002), on Goffman’s (1967/1980) concept of face and on Brown and Levinson’s (1987) concepts of positive and negative politeness. The results showed that mitigation strategies included not only lexical resources but also reformulation procedures and that the use of moderators, such as “please”, was among the most used lexical mitigation resources. The results also point out failures in the pragmatic treatment of the issue in the books analyzed.