Lucien Brown
Monash University
Lucien Brown is Associate Professor in the School of Language, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Prior to joining Monash in 2018, he worked at University of Oregon (2011-2017). He obtained his PhD in from SOAS University of London, UK. He is an Associate Editor of Journal of Pragmatics, and Editor of Korean Linguistics. His research in the field of pragmatics focusses on the contextual and situated ways in which language and other multimodal semiotic resources mark social meanings. He has particular expertise in researching the ways in which languages communicate politeness and impoliteness in multimodal ways. He has explored the importance of auditory modalities (i.e. phonetics) and visual modalities (i.e. gestures, embodied practices, etc.) in the communication of politeness and impoliteness, focussing on Korean. His work has also explored the ways in which speakers of Korean understand politeness in their own terms, which are often quite different to descriptions found in previous literature. His publications include Korean Honorifics and Politeness in Second Languages (John Benjamins, 2011), Multimodal Im/politeness (co-edited with Andreas Jucker and Iris Hübscher, John Benjamins, 2011) and Politeness Metapragmatics: Inductive Research, Multimodality and Critical Theory (Springer, Forthcoming).