Arabic-L:LING:Arabic blushing query

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Date: 28 Feb 2003
From: Christine Patricia Murphy <cpm23 at columbia.edu>
Subject:Arabic blushing query

Hello!

         My name is Christine Murphy; I am currently a senior in Columbia
University's Anthropology department, and would like to ask if I may
draw
on the experience and resources of those on this listserv to help inform
my senior thesis.

         I am looking into the cross-cultural significance of the
physiological and emotional responses associated with blushing, and
their
implications for nonverbal communication.   I wonder if anyone out
there has encountered related terms in his/her studies of Arabic (for
the
internal response, if not for an outward physical sign: verb, noun, or
adjective).

         The scope of such terms might include (but is certainly not
limited to) associations with the physical manifestations of
embarrassment, shame, anger, sexual attraction, or modesty, my
particular
interest being evidence of perceivable facial difference, perhaps by a
change in skin appearance (as is indicated in the English verb "to
blush"). I could consult a dictionary, but I am sure that the experience
as researchers and perhaps speakers of Arabic that you all may
offer me is a far greater opportunity, to be sure that the
terms and uses I refer to in my paper are current, salient, not relics
of
linguists overeager to find one-to-one relationships between familiar
and
foreign language systems.

Many thanks, and best wishes for the coming spring -

Sincerely,

Christine Murphy

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