LINGUIST List 12.472

Wed Feb 21 2001

Qs: Names for Fingers, Politeness Survey/Russian

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  1. Xulio Sousa, Names for fingers
  2. Michael Betsch, Experiment on politeness in Russian

Message 1: Names for fingers

 Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 11:58:15 +0100
From: Xulio Sousa <fgxsousausc.es>
Subject: Names for fingers



We're doing some research about the names one might use to refer to
fingers in Galician. Does anybody have some bibliographical
information about this issue, specifically about the motivations
behind the different designations? It doesn't matter the language or
the point of view adopted.

Thanks,


Lara.
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Message 2: Experiment on politeness in Russian

 Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 23:35:48 +0100
From: Michael Betsch <Michael.Betschuni-tuebingen.de>
Subject: Experiment on politeness in Russian

For a study on linguistic expressions of politeness in Slavonic languages,
we are conducting a web-based survey on how different expressions are
evaluated by Russian native speakers. We would like to ask subscribers of
LINGUIST to participate in this survey. You will find a link to our
experiment on:

http://surf.to/experiments

Many thanks in advance,
Michael Betsch

Michael Betsch
University of Tuebingen, FRG
SFB 441, Projekt B1
Michael.Betschuni-tuebingen.de
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