O uso do não no português brasileiro: a atenuação da negação como estratégia de polidez

Abstract

Due to the great advance of the Teaching of Portuguese as a Foreign Language and consequently with the limitations that the learners present due to the greater concern with the grammatical correction than with the use, it makes necessary a pragmatic analysis of such linguistic aspects. This work aims to problematize the teaching of PLE regarding the attenuation of the negative particle "no" as a politeness strategy in order to preserve the relation with the listener. For that, we will analyze the politeness theories that are in line with the problematization - especially the politeness strategies proposed by Brown & Levinson (1986) - to explain the occurrences of attenuations of the "no" in statements. At the end of the study, it is possible to conclude that politeness strategies occur by using expressions that attenuate the negative particle by the speakers in order to preserve the face of the listeners and to maintain the interaction in the best possible way.