<OM>Blushing Inquiry -

[Scott Berthiaume]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Julie Nelson" <julie_nelson at sil.org>
To: "Scott Berthiaume" <scott-tonia_berthiaume at sil.org>
Cc: <cpm23 at columbia.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 8:49 PM
Subject: Re: <OM>Blushing Inquiry -


> Zapoteco de Mixtepec
> rizhnie me guielto  "turns red out of shame"
> rizhnie me guielblëë "turns red out of anger"
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Scott Berthiaume" <scott-tonia_berthiaume at SIL.ORG>
> To: <OTOMANGUEAN-L at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG>
> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 9:31 AM
> Subject: <OM>Blushing Inquiry -
>
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > 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
>