Abstract:Brown, Penelope (born on November 2, 1944 in Summit, New Jersey, USA) is probably best known for the monograph,
Politeness: Some Universals in Language Usage
(Brown & Levinson, 1987) coauthored with Stephen Levinson. Penelope Brown is currently a senior researcher emerita at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in the Netherlands.
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