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Penelope Brown (born 1944 in Summit, NJ) is an American anthropological linguist who has studied a number of aspects of cross-linguistic, sociolinguistic, and cross-cultural studies of language and cognition.
Penelope Brown. Publications. My research broadly addresses the relationship between language, culture and cognition. As a linguistic anthropologist, I have worked for many years in the Tzeltal Maya community of Tenejapa, in southern Mexico, focusing on the study of language use in its sociocultural context.
Politeness theory, proposed by Penelope Brown and Stephen Levinson, centers on the notion of politeness, construed as efforts to redress the affronts to a person's self-esteems or face (as in "save face" or "lose face") in social interactions.
Brown, P., & Levinson, S. C. (1987). Politeness: Some universals in language usage. Cambridge University Press. Abstract. This study is about the principles for constructing polite speech. The core of it first appeared in "Questions and Politeness," edited by Esther N. Goody (now out of print).
Nov 24, 2009 · Brown and Levinson's theory of linguistic politeness first appeared in 1978, although Penelope Brown had already published an article entitled ‘Women and politeness: a new perspective on language and society’ in Review in Anthropology in 1976.
Jun 26, 2024 · Discover Politeness, 1st Edition, Penelope Brown on Higher Education from Cambridge.
Politeness: Some Universals in Language Usage. Penelope Brown, Stephen C. Levinson. Cambridge University Press, Feb 27, 1987 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 345 pages. This study is about the...
