LINGUIST List 4.510

Tue 29 Jun 1993

Qs: MIT, Deception, East Asia

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1. , A Query
2. "D.Galasinski", DECEPTION
3. Jari Perkiomaki, Conferences & Researchers in East Asia

Dear colleagues!

I just really don't know whether LINGUIST is the right forum to send
this message to, but I can't help asking my American colleagues out
there to tell me whether the Department of Linguistics at MIT is really
in danger of extinction or something of the sort.

Namely, there is an appeal circulating in Japan for fund raising to
assist the most famous linguistics department in the world. I wonder
if this is simply a Japanese phenomenon. Or is there a world-wide
campaign going on to help MIT's linguistics department?

At the last meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan four weeks ago,
we were told that the Linguistic Society of Japan was in financial
trouble, and that there was some fear of the possibility that the
society would have to cancel some of its biannual meetings in the near
future. I haven't heard of any similar fund-raising campaign going on
for our linguistics society, however.

I'd be happy if someone would help me decide whether to donate my ten
thousand yen ($95) to MIT or to our own linguistics society or perhaps
the same amount to both. I'm also interested to know the opinions of my
Japanese colleagues on LINGUIST.

A Japanese proverb has it that you had better fan a fly away from your
own head first.

Thank you in advance.

--
 Kazuto MATSUMURA
 G00814sinet.ad.jp
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 ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
 Nishigahara 4-51-21, Kita-ku, TOKYO 114 JAPAN
 tel: +81-3-3917-6111, ext. 488 fax: +81-3-3910-0613
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I am currently working on linguistic deception and manipulation
-but not deception detection and the like. I've been trying to
find recent publications on the subject - I haven't been very
successful. Can anyone help me?
Thanks.

Darek Galasinski
University of Wolverhampton
e-mail: fa1922uk.ac.wolverhampton.ccub

Good day,

A friend of mine would appreciate it very much if she could receive
information on linguistic conferences and researchers in the countries of
Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore as well as in Beijing (PR of China) and
in Bangkok (Thailand). She will be traveling in those countries
beginning on July 15 and 8-9 months thereon. Any travel info on those countries
is also warmly appreciated.

Her main interests of study are intercultural/cross-cultural communication,
foreign language oral communication, and Chinese communication research.

Please send any piece of advice directly to her by email at: saloleejyu.fi.

Thank you very much in advance,

--Jari
jpebacall.uwasa.fi