Penelope Brown (born 1944) is an American anthropological linguist who has studied a number of aspects of cross-linguistic, sociolinguistic, and cross-cultural studies of language and cognition. She was the co-developer of the theory of politeness, a key topic in 20th century sociolinguistics, which was first published in 1978 (republished with a new introduction, corrections, and a new bibliography in 1987) that she co-authored and with her research collaborator and husband, linguist Stephen Levinson.
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1944 (age 81)
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