Gênero epistolar e marcas linguísticas de polidez em cartas institucionais : um estudo de caso sincrônico e diacrônico

Abstract

Studies about linguistic politeness, although wide in various situations of verbal interaction, are shortage in the area of written interaction. This research intends to understand how happens the interactional relationships in the University of Caxias do Sul enviroment, analyzing letters dispatch between the years 1965 and 2005. The research tries to describe how the marks of politeness language appear during the time in the letters and verify if significant changes occurred in the ways to express the polish. For this, we selected thirty (30) letters for analysis, based on in all theory presented in this research, essentially the theoretical Brown and Levinson (1987) models. Results show no significant changes on linguistic constructions; so we can hypothesize that the case study should be expanded to a more general situations, to be compared to other institutions and using larger samples. It was also noticeable that the forms appear more complimentary in certain macroacts speech, such macroatcs being strictly related to politeness.