AWARENESS PRAGMÁTICO: O CASO DE CHINESES FALANTES DE PORTUGUÊS COMO L2

Abstract

The present research aims at analizing the awareness level of speakers of Portuguese as a foreign language related to Brazilian Portuguese pragmatics. More specifically, we investigate if Chinese speakers of Portuguese are able to produce requests and refusals same way Brazilians do. Thirty participants performed a production test (WDCT written discourse completion task) and also a perception test (MDCT, or multiple-choice discourse completion task). They were divided into two groups, according to where they lived: the first group was composed by fifteen Chinese people who lived in China non-immersion group , while the second group was composed by fifteen Chinese people who were living in Brazil the immersion group. Moreover, a third group composed by thirty one Brazilians was formed, so that the comparison of speakers' performance could have been done. The analysis of the data revealed some difference between the groups referring to sentence production and perception, as the immersion group was closer to the Brazilian way of producing requests and refusals. In other words, they demonstrated more awareness about the pragmatics of Portuguese language