Estratégias de polidez no gênero carta de leitor no contexto de português brasileiro como língua adicional

This work aims to investigate how a student at the intermediate level of Portuguese course for For-eigners of the University of Brasilia makes linguistic-discursive adjustments concerning the use of politeness strategies in the reader’s letter genre. Therefore, this research, affiliated with the studies of interactional sociolinguistics and (intercultural) pragmatic, is based on the concept of face and the theory of politeness as well as the notion of textual genres. After performing our methodological actions (reading and analyzing the reader’s letter, and producing this genre), we found that the research collaborator made appropriate use of politeness strategies, in line with Brazilian sociocultural conventions since, in general, equalized sincerity (necessary for the criticism) and politeness (necessary to watch over to the social image).