La expresión del ofrecimiento y la petición en aprendices de español de L1 portugués

Abstract

This research analyzes the acquisition of the pragmatic competence in Spanish L2 by a sample of L1 Portuguese learners through the study of two reciprocal speech acts: the offer and the request. After examining the expression of these acts in two different samples of native Castilian Spanish speakers and European Portuguese speakers, we have taken a contrastive analysis of the interlanguage of 70 Portuguese learners of Spanish as a foreign language (SFL) of A2 and B2 levels. The results show the variation between the two levels of the communicative development of the SFL students. Furthermore, we consider the differences between the Spanish L1 and Spanish L2, we analyze the linguistic and pragmatic strategies transferred from the native language to the target language and the resources used in Spanish L2 for the expression of these two speech acts