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Publication details [#58440]

Sherouse, Perry. 2014. Hazardous digits: Telephone keypads and Russian numbers in Tbilisi, Georgia. Language & Communication 37 : 1–11.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communicative efficiency | communicative function | language choice | number1 | telephone

Language as a subject

Georgian | Russian

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/

Annotation

This paper argues that many Georgian speakers in Tbilisi favor the non-native Russian decimal system for procuring telephone numbers to their interlocutors, thus decreasing the hazard of miskeying (which is greater in the Georgian vigesimal system), and facilitating communication.