[SlawKaus] Speakers of Slavic languages Wanted

[Aneta Buckova]

Date: 01-Mar-2024
From: Xoybun Mercan [emil.mercan at gmail.com]
Subject: Speakers of Slavic languages Wanted


I am writing a bachelor's thesis paper in General Linguistics, where I
will study how different Slavic languages split up the day.

To that end I would like to set up a dialogue with people who
speak/have a high degree of competence in any of the following
languages:

Polish
Russian
Bosnian
Macedonian
Montenegrin
Bulgarian
Slovenian
Slovak
Serbian
Croatian
Czech
Belarusian
Ukrainian
Sorbian
Rusyn

The task consists of two sessions (around 60-90 min/session) with me
in a form of personal interview conducted over zoom or a similar
long-distance medium:

Session 1: You will first be asked a few basic questions about
yourself, such as age, gender, place of birth, and self-assessed
proficiency in your language. These questions are of course fully
optional to answer, however answering them will provide me with
valuable additional data. Afterwards you will be asked to fill out a
24-hour timeline in Microsoft Excel with what you think are the
appropriate words/phrases in your language.

Session 2: The second session will take place a few days after the
first, and will have a Q&A format: I will have (basic) follow-up
questions for you to answer regarding your timeline created in session
1 about things like word choice etc. These questions have no right or
wrong answer and are meant to provide more elaborate data on
time-of-day reference in your language.
Finally, you will be provided with a list of words relating to
time-of-day reference in your language generated through google
translate. Your task here will be to essentially "fact-check" this
list and tell me which words are nonsense, outdated, still in use etc.

If you are interested, please email me at emil.mercan at gmail.com.

Thank you very much in advance for any contributions made to this
project!