A Russian colleague of mine, <span class="nfakPe">Olga</span> Maslova, is completing her<br>dissertation in sociolinguistics at Moscow State University. She wants<br>to find 50 respondents to fill out a one-hour online survey. She has
<br>some special requirements of respondents which disqualify most<br>ordinary students:<br><br>Students must have had some exposure to anthropological or<br>sociolinguistics. (A single course will do.)<br>Each participant will be paid $15 cash to complete the online survey.
<br>They purpose of the survey is to collect data on attitudes towards<br>various degrees of speech aggression. It takes 60 minutes.<br>The survey designer will not have access to student names, only to pseudonyms.<br>The survey asks for no personal information.
<br>Respondents are asked to rate various printed utterances as to the<br>degree of speech aggression and/or politeness ( e.g. "I'm warning<br>you...!)<br>Respondents are also asked to write down examples of utterances that
<br>fit the categories listed in the survey.<br><br>Because the investigator is Russian, writing in Russia for a strictly<br>Russian audience, she is not IRB-certified. (IRB-like requirements are<br>unknown in Russia.) However, I am IRB certified in Social Sciences. I
<br>have examined the survey thoroughly and while one can criticize it<br>methodologically, nothing in it raises issues central to IRB.<br><br>You yourself can see the survey at <a href="http://home.gwu.edu/%7Errobin/maslova.html" target="_blank">
http://home.gwu.edu/~rrobin/maslova.html</a>.<br><br>If you are interested in taking the survey and receiving a $15<br>payment, please respond to me off-list.<br><br>Sincerely,<br>Richard Robin<br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>
Richard M. Robin, Ph.D.<br>Director Russian Language Program<br>Technical Advisor, GW Language Сenter<br>The George Washington University<br>Washington, DC 20008<br>202-994-7081<br>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br>Russkiy tekst v UTF-8