Gillian Brown (linguist)

Gillian Brown
Born (1937-01-23) 23 January 1937 (age 87)[1]
Academic work
DisciplineLinguist
Sub-disciplineDiscourse analysis

Gillian D. Brown (born 1937) is a British linguist. She is known for her expertise on discourse analysis.[2][3][4] She obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh in 1971, presenting the thesis "Aspects of a phonology of Lumasaaba".[5]

Books

  • Teaching the Spoken Language
  • Discourse Analysis
  • Phonological Rules and Dialect Variation: A Study of the Phonology of Lumasaaba
  • Performance and Competence in Second Language Acquisition
  • Speakers, Listeners and Communication: Explorations in Discourse Analysis
  • Questions of Intonation

References

  1. ^ Tomorrow's birthdays. Guardian, London, 22 January 2022, G2, p. 9.
  2. ^ Weyters, T. (1983). "Gillian Brown and George Yule, Discourse Analysis. Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1983. Pp. Xii+288. Price: 20.00 ($ 39,50) - Cloth; 6.95 ($12,95) - Paperback". Journal of Semantics. 2 (3–4): 354–356. doi:10.1093/semant/2.3-4.354. Retrieved 30 January 2019.
  3. ^ McRoy, Susan (1 December 2000). "Gillian Brown, Speakers, Listeners, and Communication: Explorations in Discourse Analysis". User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction. 10 (4): 309–313. doi:10.1023/A:1008335312076. ISSN 1573-1391. S2CID 12396823.
  4. ^ Friedman, Debra A. (30 June 1997). "Speakers, Listeners and Communication: Explorations in Discourse Analysis by Gillian Brown. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. 251 pp". Issues in Applied Linguistics. 8 (1). doi:10.5070/L481005255. ISSN 1050-4273. Retrieved 30 January 2019.
  5. ^ Brown, Gillian (1971). "Aspects of a phonology of Lumasaaba". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)


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