13.2 Normative Grammars

Silva, Augusto Soares da

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“…Despite the increased use of communicative language teaching or task-based language teaching in Europe, which are promoted by the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (Council of Europe, 2001, 2020 and seek to develop students' communication skills, L2 Spanish textbooks in Europe still often dismiss pragmatic matters, such as T/V uses (Más Álvarez, 2014(Más Álvarez, , 2021Navarro Gala, 2000;Sampedro Mella, 2016). This is illustrated in Sampedro Mella & Sánchez Gutiérrez (2019), who analyzed 15 beginner L2 Spanish textbooks and found that only 13.3% included an adequate approach for teaching T/V.…”

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Language immersion effects in the use of tú and usted by L1-French and L1-European Portuguese learners of Spanish

Mella

Sánchez‐Gutiérrez

2023

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The use of the Spanish pronouns of address tú and usted is an intricate matter for L2 learners due to the many factors that influence their selection at the discourse and interactional level. Although the literature has traditionally focused on the challenges experienced by L1-English learners of L2-Spanish in learning these forms, less is known about speakers whose L1s also present similar (but not identical) pronouns of address. This study thus analyzes the use of tú and usted by L1-French and L1-European Portuguese learners who learn Spanish either in their home countries (i.e., France and Portugal) or in Spain as part of a study-abroad experience. Results indicate that learners in both L1 groups used tú more often while in Spain than in their home country. Additionally, students in immersion started adopting more similar criteria to those of L1-Spanish speakers in determining whether tú or usted would be appropriate in certain contexts.

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“…As opposed to English or French, in Portuguese, the grammatical description and prescription have been carried out separately for European and Brazilian standards (cf. Biderman, 2001; Silva, 2020). This is due to the differences between the two varieties in all the levels of the language: grammatical patterns, lexis, phonological system, and also PAs.…”

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Language immersion effects in the use of tú and usted by L1-French and L1-European Portuguese learners of Spanish

Mella

Sánchez‐Gutiérrez

2023

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Chapter 9. Constructional changes in Brazilian Portuguese in the 20th century

Soares da Silva

2024

Language Change in the 20th Century

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This chapter analyzes two constructional changes by deletion of linguistic elements in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) in the 20th century, namely, the null clitic se constructions (specifically, reflexive, reciprocal, middle, anticausative, passive, and impersonal constructions) and the chopping relative construction, as two relevant manifestations of the recent standardization of the BP variety diverging from European Portuguese (EP). Based on a usage-feature and profile-based analysis and adopting a sociocognitive view of language, especially Cognitive Grammar, this study shows that the deletion of the clitic se conveys a shift to a nonenergetic, absolute construal of the event, and that the deletion of the preposition correlates with the grammaticalization of the relative pronoun que and highlights the accessibility of the nominal antecedent. Three contributions to research on language change are stressed: changes by deletion generate new constructions with their own meanings; synchronic constructional alternation, such as the one existing in BP between overt and null se constructions and the one already nonexistent in BP but existing in EP between pied-piping and chopping constructions, allows simulation of the diachronic constructional change in real time; and successful media from the mid-20th century onward, such as TV Globo for the huge Brazilian population, play a central role in language change and standardization.

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13.2 Normative Grammars

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Language immersion effects in the use of tú and usted by L1-French and L1-European Portuguese learners of Spanish

Language immersion effects in the use of tú and usted by L1-French and L1-European Portuguese learners of Spanish

Chapter 9. Constructional changes in Brazilian Portuguese in the 20th century

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