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Penelope Brown
Researcher at Max Planck Society
Publications - 98
Citations - 25772
Penelope Brown is an academic researcher from Max Planck Society. The author has contributed to research in topics: Politeness & Verb. The author has an hindex of 32, co-authored 97 publications receiving 24781 citations. Previous affiliations of Penelope Brown include University of California, Berkeley & Australian National University.
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Politeness : Some Universals in Language Usage
TL;DR: Gumperz as discussed by the authors discusses politeness strategies in language and their implications for language studies, including sociological implications and implications for social sciences. But he does not discuss the relationship between politeness and language.
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Politeness: Some Universals in Language Usage
TL;DR: This paper presents an argument about the nature of the model and its implications for language studies and Sociological implications and discusses the role of politeness strategies in language.
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Universals and cultural variation in turn taking in conversation
Tanya Stivers,N. J. Enfield,Penelope Brown,Christina Englert,Makoto Hayashi,Trine Heinemann,Gertie Hoymann,Federico Rossano,Jan Peter De Ruiter,Kyung-Eun Yoon,Stephen C. Levinson +10 more
TL;DR: The empirical evidence suggests robust human universals in this domain, where local variations are quantitative only, pointing to a single shared infrastructure for language use with likely ethological foundations.