Looking for linguistically aware native informants

[Richard Robin]

A Russian colleague of mine, Olga Maslova, is completing her
dissertation in sociolinguistics at Moscow State University. She wants
to find 50 respondents to fill out a one-hour online survey. She has
some special requirements of respondents which disqualify most
ordinary students:

Students must have had some exposure to anthropological or
sociolinguistics. (A single course will do.)
Each participant will be paid $15 cash 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 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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