Attenuations and attenuators: strategies

• Grant number: 16/01342-0
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Visiting Researcher Grant - International
• Start date: August 20, 2016
• End date: September 04, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Linguistics
• Principal Investigator: Luiz Antônio da Silva
• Grantee: Luiz Antônio da Silva
• Visiting researcher: Antonio Briz Gomez
• Visiting researcher institution: Universitat de València, Spain
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This research is inscribed in a big research project (ES.POR.ATENUAÇÃO) that seeks to analyze and explain the attenuator activity in different regional varieties of Spanish and Portuguese, in order to perform, subsequently, different contrastive intralinguistic and interlinguistic studies. We explain some of the theoretical and methodological principles on which are based the qualitative and quantitative analysis. And especially, we will refer to the concept of attenuation. (AU)