Reações de atitude ao sotaque suprasegmental

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2001

RESUMO

This thesis is a study of attitudinal reactions caused by suprasegmental accent present in the speech of Brazilians and Americanswhen speaking either English or Portuguese as a foreign language. As this study targeted two distinct linguistic domains, parallel research was carried out in both Brazil and the USA. For this matter, an instrument based on the matched-guisetechnique (Lambert at el., 1960)was created. Briefly speaking, this instrument consisted of tape recordings of Brazilian native speakers reading a text in English - each individual using both heavy and light suprasegmental accents. The instrument was then evaluated by Americans in the United States and the results (analyzed through t-tests) demonstrated that the Brazilian accent affected the judges evaluation negatively. In Brazil, a similar instrument, consisted of tape recordings of American native speakers reading a Portuguese translation of the same text (each individual using both heavy and light suprasegmental accents), was evaluated by Brazilians. The results, however, revealed that the American accent affected the judges evaluation positively. A contrastive analyses between some features of stress, rhythm and intonation of Brazilian Portuguese and American English revealed that certain aspects of Portuguese, when transferred to English, resemble pattems that usually express doubt, suspicion, criticism and lack of interest - which unconsciously generates a negative reaction in the American listener. On the other hand, aspects of English, when applied to Portuguese, sound like pattems used to express enthusiasm and surprise. These data may help explain why both domains had opposite results and, consequently, why Americans have negative attitudinal reactions when communicating with Brazilians

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lingua portuguesa - analise prosodica fonetica lingua inglesa - analise prosodica linguistica aplicada

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