Looking for US native informants for Russian colleague

[Richard Robin]

Dear SEELANGovtsy,

A Russian colleague of mine, Olga Maslova, is completing her
dissertation in sociolinguistics at Moscow State University. She wants
to find 50 respondents, GRADUATE STUDENTS IN THE HUMANITIES OR LAW
STUDENTS,
to fill out a one-hour online survey.

Each participant will be paid $15 cash/check to complete the online survey.
They purpose of the survey is to collect data on attitudes towards
various degrees of speech aggression. It takes 60 minutes.

The survey designer will not have access to student names, only to
pseudonyms.
The survey asks for no personal information.

Respondents are asked to rate various printed utterances as to the
degree of speech aggression and/or politeness ( e.g. "I'm warning
you...!) Respondents are also asked to write down examples of utterances
that
fit the categories listed in the survey.

Because the investigator is Russian, writing in Russia for a strictly
Russian audience, she is not IRB-certified. (IRB-like requirements are
unknown in Russia.) However, I am IRB certified in Social Sciences. I
have examined the survey thoroughly and while one can criticize it
methodologically, nothing in it raises issues central to IRB.

You yourself can see the survey at
http://home.gwu.edu/~rrobin/maslova.html<http://home.gwu.edu/%7Errobin/maslova.html>
.

If you or any of your graduate students are interested in taking the survey
and receiving a $15
payment, please respond to me off-list.

Sincerely,
Richard Robin

-- 
Richard M. Robin, Ph.D.
Director Russian Language Program
Technical Advisor, GW Language Сenter
The George Washington University
Washington, DC 20008
202-994-7081
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