<OM>Blushing Inquiry -

[Scott Berthiaume]

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From: "Christine Patricia Murphy" <cpm23 at columbia.edu>
To: <otomanguean-l at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG>
Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 4:34 AM
Subject: Blushing Inquiry -

> 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 Otomanguean
> languages (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"). Here at Columbia I unfortunately do not have ready print
> resources for Otomanguean languages - but more importantly, the experience
> as researchers and perhaps speakers of these language 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