LINGUIST List 21.4353 Mon Nov 01 2010 Qs: Motivation of Chess Pieces' Names in Any Lang Editor for this issue: Danielle St. Jean <daniellelinguistlist.org> We'd like to remind readers that the responses to queries are usually best posted to the individual asking the question. That individual is then strongly encouraged to post a summary to the list. This policy was instituted to help control the huge volume of mail on LINGUIST; so we would appreciate your cooperating with it whenever it seems appropriate. In addition to posting a summary, we'd like to remind people that it is usually a good idea to personally thank those individuals who have taken the trouble to respond to the query. To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.     Adam Glaz , Motivation of Chess Pieces' Names in Any Lang Message 1: Motivation of Chess Pieces' Names in Any Lang Date: 23-Oct-2010 From: Adam Glaz <adam.glazumcs.pl> Subject: Motivation of Chess Pieces' Names in Any Lang E-mail this message to a friend Dear Linguists, My colleague and I are collecting a bibliography for an article on the motivation of the names for chess pieces in various languages. We are wondering whether someone might know about any research published so far on the subject. Preferably in English though it may be concerned with any other language or languages. Preferably from the cognitive linguistic viewpoint but not necessarily. We have consulted several databases (ISI web sciences, Bibliographie Linguistique online, Philosopher's Index, DOAJ, EBSCO, Scirus, Scopus, ERIC, MLA, Academic Search Complete, Science Direct, Cognitive Lings Bibliography on CD-Rom 2006, Oxford Journals, Persee, Wiley online library, Academic Journal) plus several publishers' websites but found nothing directly on target. (A few articles on language and chess include Judit Simo's 2009 "Chess Metaphors in American English and Hungarian", Cohen's 1982 "Chess as a model of language", and David Ritchie's "ARGUMENT IS WAS - or is it a game of chess?", but these are not exactly on the same subject.) We would be grateful for any suggestions and will post a summary of responses or a list of items if there is interest. Adam Glaz Lublin, Poland adam.glazumcs.pl Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics                             Sociolinguistics Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 01-Nov-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.