Some communicative differences between portuguese and english

This paper tackles communicative differences or similarities between English and Portuguese, from the assumption that this knowledge may be useful in the translator's activity in attempting to translate better discursive phenomena. We believe that the awareness of communicative differences within a language pair can avoid discourse inconsistencies and even misunderstandings between speakers of different languages. We found that the literature emphasizes the structural differences between English and Portuguese, but not the discursive differences. Therefore, we propose a preliminary identification of these differences from the research of House (1997), Le Berre (2008), Negrão (2001), Piccolo (2002) and Nogueira (2013) with whom we dialogue to support our study