Sandi Michele de Oliveira
List of John Benjamins publications in which Sandi Michele de Oliveira is involved.
2013 Cognitive collages and other mental representations of address forms and strategies: Examples from Portuguese Deixis and Pronouns in Romance Languages, Kragh, Kirsten Jeppesen and Jan Lindschouw (eds.), pp. 189–204 | Article
Little attention has been given to the cognitive mechanisms underlying speaker assessments and address form selection. The examination of cognitive strategies leads to a discussion of the conceptual metaphors Portuguese speakers have used in discussing address over the past 25 years. The metaphors… read more
2005 A retrospective on address in Portugal (1982–2002): Rethinking power and solidarity The Evolution of Pragmatic Markers, Mosegaard Hansen, Maj-Britt and Corinne Rossari (eds.), pp. 307–323 | Article
This article presents changes (1982–2002) in the way Portuguese speakers have attributed importance to individual address forms and to the factors important in their selection, as well as differences in pragmatic interpretation. While laypersons cite a lack of respect and generalized use of tu, the… read more



