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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Main Author: Milene Mendes de Oliveira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais 2017-05-01
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