Sociopragmatic failure revisited: the case of intercultural communication between Brazilians and Americans
ABSTRACT This article aims to discuss the concept of sociopragmatic failure (THOMAS, 1983) by focusing on American interviewees’ perceptions of the phenomenon as arising from utterances spoken by Brazilian learners of English. To achieve this aim, interviews were conducted with three American teache...
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| Language: | English |
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Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
2017-05-01
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| Series: | Revista Brasileira de Linguística Aplicada |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1984-63982017000200307&lng=en&tlng=en |