Acquisition of Portuguese as an additional language (PLA): the use of hedges in Portuguese by native speakers of Mandarin

Authors

  • Cristina Lopes Perna PUCRS
  • Yuqi Sun PUCRS

Keywords:

Acquisition of hedges, Portuguese as an additional language, Pragmatics, Corpus linguistics

Abstract

The purpose of the present paper is to compare the use of hedges among Brazilian speakers of Portuguese and Portuguese learners, who speak Mandarin as L1. A definition for hedges was suggested and a listing of occurrences of this phenomenon in the linguistic system of Brazilian Portuguese and Portuguese as Additional Language was presented. Then, a methodology for the compilation of the two oral corpora was presented, by means of a longitudinal study that lasted nine months. The data analysis was based on the new classification of hedges, with the aim of comparing the productions in Brazilian Portuguese and Portuguese as Additional Language. This study is an attempt to analyze hedges utilizing Corpus Linguistics and the aim was to contribute to a methodology for the acquisition process of Portuguese as an Additional Language.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Downloads

How to Cite

Perna, C. L., & Sun, Y. (2011). Acquisition of Portuguese as an additional language (PLA): the use of hedges in Portuguese by native speakers of Mandarin. Letras De Hoje, 46(3), 59–70. Retrieved from https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/fale/article/view/9745

Issue

Vol. 46 No. 3 (2011): Sobre Aquisição da Linguagem

Section

Sobre Aquisição da Linguagem

License

Copyright

The submission of originals to Letras de Hoje implies the transfer by the authors of the right for publication. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication. If the authors wish to include the same data into another publication, they must cite Letras de Hoje as the site of original publication.

Creative Commons License

Except where otherwise specified, material published in this journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license, which allows unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original publication is correctly cited.