La (des)cortesía verbal en ELEprincipios y análisis de manuales

Laburpena

After analyzing the main theories of (dis)courtesy, focused on Spanish, and the role of interculturality in ELE, a study of the presence of verbal (dis)courtesy has been carried out in three current ELE manuals. In total, 108 samples of speech acts have been counted in order to analyze: (i) the presence of courtesy in ELE manuals, (ii) the methodology with which it is presented, (iii) the link between interculturality and sociopragmatic in ELE. These manuals exemplify the current need to overcome the traditional communicative approach by fostering an ethnographic approach, based on the observation of specific data, to work, in particular, sociopragmatic issues in ELE. In addition, as these are issues relating to sociopragmatics, we must not forget the role that the teacher plays in the classroom, because it must be a link between the culture of origin and the meta culture, normalizing the fact that it can make mistakes and encouraging the discovery of a new culture, in order to avoid the creation of stereotypes and cultural shock.