Lucien Brown
Biographic Data
| ID | 3591843 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lucien Brown |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lucien |
| FAMILY NAME | Brown |
| SIGNATURE | BROWN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monash University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9097-1649 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 109 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Hotspots for acoustic politeness in Korean and Japanese deferential speech
This study extends a growing body of crosslinguistic research on multimodal politeness, with a focus on the phonetics of deferential speech in Korean and Japanese. Whereas previous studies have examined the global acoustic properties of deferential speech averaged across the entire utterance, we hypothesize that acoustic characteristics are localized into specific politeness “hotspots.” Using data from a read-aloud task, our model analyzes the vo…
L2 Pragmatic Development in Constructing and Negotiating Contextual Meanings
The way in which L2 learners construct pragmatic and social meanings, including stances and identities, is emerging as an important research concern. In this study, we explore how L2 learners develop the ability to construct and negotiate pragmatic and social meanings, with a focus on meanings manifested in specific contexts, namely, contextual meanings. Specifically, we trace the development made by a group of 30 L2 Korean learners in their unde…
Prosodic features of polite speech: Evidence from Korean interactional data
This paper uses interactional data to investigate the acoustic characteristics of polite or deferential speech in Korean. We asked fourteen Korean speakers to perform two tasks with two different interlocutors: a status superior and a friend. Consistent with previous studies of non-interactional data, deferential speech has lower pitch and shimmer, and quieter final syllables. However, divergent from previous studies, deferential speech featured …
Intercultural Im/politeness: Perceptions of language choice and translanguaging in the Korean community in Australia
This paper furthers the literature on intercultural im/politeness by investigating the phenomenon of language choice in multilingual contexts. We investigate how choosing one language over another in contexts where two or more language codes are available can stem from concerns for maintaining or asserting politeness-related norms, and how unexpected or undesired language choices can lead to negative evaluations on the part of the interlocutor. W…
How Korean language students studying in Seoul navigate linguistic and cultural homogeneity
“The denigration of Korean men’s genitals”: Precision grip gestures and the multimodal construction of “taking offence” in media discourse surrounding anti-feminism in South Korea
This paper presents a critical discourse analysis of metapragmatic commentary in online news surrounding the emergence of a new offensive gesture in South Korea. This new offensive hand shape is a “precision grip” gesture whereby the thumb and index finger are pursed together to represent small size. In May 2021, male-dominated online communities started to take offence at the prevalence of this gesture in advertising campaigns, viewing it as a m…
Multimodal Im/politeness: Signed, Spoken, Written
Multimodal im/politeness: Introduction
ZORA (Zurich Open Repository and Archive) provides open and worldwide access to the research and scholarly output of the University of Zurich, Switzerland. A focus is on qualified scientific publications. ZORA is operated by the University Library together with the Central IT of the University of Zurich
Is It Polite to Hiss: Nonverbal Sound Objects as Markers of (Im)politeness in Korean
This paper explores the politeness-related functions of an ingressive hissing-like sound that occurs frequently in Korean and which is typically transcribed as ssup . This nonverbal sound is produced by drawing air alongside the tongue or between the teeth and may appear either before the production of a turn, or during turn production. Previous studies have shown that Korean speakers produce more frequent hisses when addressing status superiors.…
The embodied enactment of politeness metapragmatics
Whereas previous research on metapragmatic talk has tended to focus on what people say about politeness, the current paper additionally explores how people talk about politeness. More specifically, we extend our analysis to the embodied resources, including gestures and nonverbal behaviour, that people use when enacting politeness talk. The data comes from two semi-structured interviews that we conducted with South Korean participants, both of wh…
Gestures are modulated by social context: A study of multimodal politeness across two cultures
This paper investigates gesture as a resource for marking politeness-related meanings. We asked 14 Korean and 14 Catalan participants to retell a cartoon, once to an unknown superior and once to a close friend. Participants in both languages curtail gestures when interacting with a socially distant superior. Speakers of both languages produced fewer gestures when addressing the superior, reduced their gesture space, decreased the encoding of mann…
Ideologies in Second Language Learning: The Case of Korean Address Terms
This paper explores how textbooks for second language learners make ideologically motivated decisions regarding which forms of the target language are included in the curriculum. We explore this question via an analysis of Korean language textbooks, at a time when Korean society is becoming increasingly globalized and multicultural. The focus is on the representation of the highly developed system of address terms in Korean. Although address term…
Effects of L2 experience on Mandarin listeners’ perception of Korean politeness
Second Language knowledge of pragmatic meanings: What do learners of Korean know about the Korean pronouns ce and na
Politeness as normative, evaluative and discriminatory: The case of verbal hygiene discourses on correct honorifics use in South Korea
This paper uses the concept of “verbal hygiene” (Cameron, Deborah. 1995. Verbal hygiene . Abingdon, UK: Routledge) to analyze metadiscourses in South Korea regarding a recent innovation in the use of subject honorific markers in the service industry. This innovation, commonly referred to as samwul contay ‘inanimate object respect’ involves using honorifics when the grammatical subject of the sentence is an inanimate object, typically the products…
Beyond politeness markers: Multiple morphological and lexical differences index deferential meanings in Korean
Loudness Trumps Pitch in Politeness Judgments: Evidence from Korean Deferential Speech
Social meaning is not conveyed through words alone, but also through how words are produced phonetically. This paper investigates the role of loudness and pitch in determining the perception of politeness-related judgments in Korean. It has been proposed that high pitch is universally associated with polite or deferential social meanings. In contrast to this, Experiment 1 examined the perceptual effect of pitch and found no effect. Experiment 2 t…
Cross-cultural multimodal politeness: The phonetics of Japanese deferential speech in comparison to Korean
Pragmatic meanings are not only conveyed through words alone, but also through how words are produced phonetically. The current study investigated phonetic features that characterize the distinction between deferential and non-deferential speech style in Japanese. The Japanese data were then compared to previously published Korean data collected through the same methodology. The results revealed striking similarities between the two languages: De…
Did Becky really need to apologise? Intercultural evaluations of politeness
This study analyses a public apology made in 2016 by Becky, an Anglo-Japanese tarento ‘celebrity’, for her romantic involvement with a married man, musician Enon Kawatani. Adopting an integrative pragmatics perspective, we analyse the pragmatic acts Becky used to perform her apology, including culture-specific nonverbal behaviours indexing deference. We then look at how the apology was dynamically evaluated in naturally occurring discourse in Jap…
Multimodal indexicality in Korean: “Doing Deference” and “Performing Intimacy” Through Nonverbal Behavior
This study investigates the nonverbal behaviors used in two interconnected relational practices in Korean: “doing deference” towards status superiors and “performing intimacy” towards status equals. We extracted 154 interactions from Korean televised dramas that represented these two relational practices, and annotated the data for various nonverbal behaviors, including body position and orientation, facial expressions, manual gestures, and touch…
Gender Identity in a Second Language: The Use of First Person Pronouns by Male Learners of Japanese
This is a qualitative sociocultural study examining how five advanced-level learners of Japanese from the United States use gendered first person pronouns to negotiate their identities. Japanese does not have a ubiquitous pronoun such as English I. Instead, the language contains forms that are marked for formality and gender, including watashi (formal/feminine), ore (informal/masculine) and boku (neutral/boyish). We collected recordings of the le…
Nwuna׳s body is so sexy”: Pop culture and the chronotopic formulations of kinship terms in Korean
Revisiting “polite” –yo and “deferential” –supnita speech style shifting in Korean from the viewpoint of indexicality
Phonetics and politeness: Perceiving Korean honorific and non-honorific speech through phonetic cues
Mind your own esteemed business”: Sarcastic honorifics use and impoliteness in Korean TV dramas
Honorifics have traditionally been analyzed as markers of “deference” and have been connected with positive values such as “respect”, “dignity” and “elegance”. However, in this paper, I demonstrate that these readings only apply to normative and stereotypical patterns of honorifics use. When applied in other contexts, where their use is not normally expected, honorifics take on different social meanings, including sarcasm. Through the analysis of…
Phonetics and politeness: Perceiving Korean honorific and non-honorific speech through phonetic cues
Revisiting “polite” –yo and “deferential” –supnita speech style shifting in Korean from the viewpoint of indexicality
Multimodal indexicality in Korean: “Doing Deference” and “Performing Intimacy” Through Nonverbal Behavior
This study investigates the nonverbal behaviors used in two interconnected relational practices in Korean: “doing deference” towards status superiors and “performing intimacy” towards status equals. We extracted 154 interactions from Korean televised dramas that represented these two relational practices, and annotated the data for various nonverbal behaviors, including body position and orientation, facial expressions, manual gestures, and touch…
Cross-cultural multimodal politeness: The phonetics of Japanese deferential speech in comparison to Korean
Pragmatic meanings are not only conveyed through words alone, but also through how words are produced phonetically. The current study investigated phonetic features that characterize the distinction between deferential and non-deferential speech style in Japanese. The Japanese data were then compared to previously published Korean data collected through the same methodology. The results revealed striking similarities between the two languages: De…
Mind your own esteemed business”: Sarcastic honorifics use and impoliteness in Korean TV dramas
Honorifics have traditionally been analyzed as markers of “deference” and have been connected with positive values such as “respect”, “dignity” and “elegance”. However, in this paper, I demonstrate that these readings only apply to normative and stereotypical patterns of honorifics use. When applied in other contexts, where their use is not normally expected, honorifics take on different social meanings, including sarcasm. Through the analysis of…
Politeness as normative, evaluative and discriminatory: The case of verbal hygiene discourses on correct honorifics use in South Korea
This paper uses the concept of “verbal hygiene” (Cameron, Deborah. 1995. Verbal hygiene . Abingdon, UK: Routledge) to analyze metadiscourses in South Korea regarding a recent innovation in the use of subject honorific markers in the service industry. This innovation, commonly referred to as samwul contay ‘inanimate object respect’ involves using honorifics when the grammatical subject of the sentence is an inanimate object, typically the products…
Questions of appropriateness and authenticity in the representation of Korean honorifics in textbooks for second language learners
This paper explores the representation of honorifics in the teaching of Korean as a second language through the analysis of three leading series of textbooks published in Seoul. Despite the fact that Korean is a language with a highly developed honorifics system, these textbooks at times under-emphasize the importance of honorifics and focus around one particular ‘level’ of honorification. If learners were to apply this ‘level’ to real-world enco…
Second Language knowledge of pragmatic meanings: What do learners of Korean know about the Korean pronouns ce and na
Loudness Trumps Pitch in Politeness Judgments: Evidence from Korean Deferential Speech
Social meaning is not conveyed through words alone, but also through how words are produced phonetically. This paper investigates the role of loudness and pitch in determining the perception of politeness-related judgments in Korean. It has been proposed that high pitch is universally associated with polite or deferential social meanings. In contrast to this, Experiment 1 examined the perceptual effect of pitch and found no effect. Experiment 2 t…
Teaching ‘casual’ and/or ‘impolite’ language through multimedia: The case of non-honorific panmal speech styles in Korean
This article reports on the design, implementation and evaluation of an activity used to teach non-honorific speech styles through multimedia to a class of intermediate learners at a university in Europe. Although much emphasis has been placed in Korean language learning and teaching on the importance of honorific styles, my article reveals that this at times has come at the expense of ignoring the other side of the coin: non-honorific language. …
Gender Identity in a Second Language: The Use of First Person Pronouns by Male Learners of Japanese
This is a qualitative sociocultural study examining how five advanced-level learners of Japanese from the United States use gendered first person pronouns to negotiate their identities. Japanese does not have a ubiquitous pronoun such as English I. Instead, the language contains forms that are marked for formality and gender, including watashi (formal/feminine), ore (informal/masculine) and boku (neutral/boyish). We collected recordings of the le…
Nwuna׳s body is so sexy”: Pop culture and the chronotopic formulations of kinship terms in Korean
The embodied enactment of politeness metapragmatics
Whereas previous research on metapragmatic talk has tended to focus on what people say about politeness, the current paper additionally explores how people talk about politeness. More specifically, we extend our analysis to the embodied resources, including gestures and nonverbal behaviour, that people use when enacting politeness talk. The data comes from two semi-structured interviews that we conducted with South Korean participants, both of wh…
Gestures are modulated by social context: A study of multimodal politeness across two cultures
This paper investigates gesture as a resource for marking politeness-related meanings. We asked 14 Korean and 14 Catalan participants to retell a cartoon, once to an unknown superior and once to a close friend. Participants in both languages curtail gestures when interacting with a socially distant superior. Speakers of both languages produced fewer gestures when addressing the superior, reduced their gesture space, decreased the encoding of mann…
Beyond politeness markers: Multiple morphological and lexical differences index deferential meanings in Korean
Politeness and second language learning: The case of Korean speech styles
This paper puts forward a model for the study of politeness in second language learning and applies this approach to data collected pertaining to the use of speech styles by advanced learners of Korean from “Western” backgrounds. The learning of politeness in a second language is conceptualized as a process of “re-framing”; in other words, of re-analyzing and enriching existing frames regarding the kind of (linguistic) behavior that normally occu…
Ideologies in Second Language Learning: The Case of Korean Address Terms
This paper explores how textbooks for second language learners make ideologically motivated decisions regarding which forms of the target language are included in the curriculum. We explore this question via an analysis of Korean language textbooks, at a time when Korean society is becoming increasingly globalized and multicultural. The focus is on the representation of the highly developed system of address terms in Korean. Although address term…
Politeness and second language learning: The case of Korean speech styles
This paper puts forward a model for the study of politeness in second language learning and applies this approach to data collected pertaining to the use of speech styles by advanced learners of Korean from “Western” backgrounds. The learning of politeness in a second language is conceptualized as a process of “re-framing”; in other words, of re-analyzing and enriching existing frames regarding the kind of (linguistic) behavior that normally occu…
Questions of appropriateness and authenticity in the representation of Korean honorifics in textbooks for second language learners
This paper explores the representation of honorifics in the teaching of Korean as a second language through the analysis of three leading series of textbooks published in Seoul. Despite the fact that Korean is a language with a highly developed honorifics system, these textbooks at times under-emphasize the importance of honorifics and focus around one particular ‘level’ of honorification. If learners were to apply this ‘level’ to real-world enco…
Teaching ‘casual’ and/or ‘impolite’ language through multimedia: The case of non-honorific panmal speech styles in Korean
This article reports on the design, implementation and evaluation of an activity used to teach non-honorific speech styles through multimedia to a class of intermediate learners at a university in Europe. Although much emphasis has been placed in Korean language learning and teaching on the importance of honorific styles, my article reveals that this at times has come at the expense of ignoring the other side of the coin: non-honorific language. …
Mind your own esteemed business”: Sarcastic honorifics use and impoliteness in Korean TV dramas
Honorifics have traditionally been analyzed as markers of “deference” and have been connected with positive values such as “respect”, “dignity” and “elegance”. However, in this paper, I demonstrate that these readings only apply to normative and stereotypical patterns of honorifics use. When applied in other contexts, where their use is not normally expected, honorifics take on different social meanings, including sarcasm. Through the analysis of…
Phonetics and politeness: Perceiving Korean honorific and non-honorific speech through phonetic cues
Revisiting “polite” –yo and “deferential” –supnita speech style shifting in Korean from the viewpoint of indexicality
Nwuna׳s body is so sexy”: Pop culture and the chronotopic formulations of kinship terms in Korean
Gender Identity in a Second Language: The Use of First Person Pronouns by Male Learners of Japanese
This is a qualitative sociocultural study examining how five advanced-level learners of Japanese from the United States use gendered first person pronouns to negotiate their identities. Japanese does not have a ubiquitous pronoun such as English I. Instead, the language contains forms that are marked for formality and gender, including watashi (formal/feminine), ore (informal/masculine) and boku (neutral/boyish). We collected recordings of the le…
Did Becky really need to apologise? Intercultural evaluations of politeness
This study analyses a public apology made in 2016 by Becky, an Anglo-Japanese tarento ‘celebrity’, for her romantic involvement with a married man, musician Enon Kawatani. Adopting an integrative pragmatics perspective, we analyse the pragmatic acts Becky used to perform her apology, including culture-specific nonverbal behaviours indexing deference. We then look at how the apology was dynamically evaluated in naturally occurring discourse in Jap…
Multimodal indexicality in Korean: “Doing Deference” and “Performing Intimacy” Through Nonverbal Behavior
This study investigates the nonverbal behaviors used in two interconnected relational practices in Korean: “doing deference” towards status superiors and “performing intimacy” towards status equals. We extracted 154 interactions from Korean televised dramas that represented these two relational practices, and annotated the data for various nonverbal behaviors, including body position and orientation, facial expressions, manual gestures, and touch…
Cross-cultural multimodal politeness: The phonetics of Japanese deferential speech in comparison to Korean
Pragmatic meanings are not only conveyed through words alone, but also through how words are produced phonetically. The current study investigated phonetic features that characterize the distinction between deferential and non-deferential speech style in Japanese. The Japanese data were then compared to previously published Korean data collected through the same methodology. The results revealed striking similarities between the two languages: De…
Loudness Trumps Pitch in Politeness Judgments: Evidence from Korean Deferential Speech
Social meaning is not conveyed through words alone, but also through how words are produced phonetically. This paper investigates the role of loudness and pitch in determining the perception of politeness-related judgments in Korean. It has been proposed that high pitch is universally associated with polite or deferential social meanings. In contrast to this, Experiment 1 examined the perceptual effect of pitch and found no effect. Experiment 2 t…
Politeness as normative, evaluative and discriminatory: The case of verbal hygiene discourses on correct honorifics use in South Korea
This paper uses the concept of “verbal hygiene” (Cameron, Deborah. 1995. Verbal hygiene . Abingdon, UK: Routledge) to analyze metadiscourses in South Korea regarding a recent innovation in the use of subject honorific markers in the service industry. This innovation, commonly referred to as samwul contay ‘inanimate object respect’ involves using honorifics when the grammatical subject of the sentence is an inanimate object, typically the products…
Beyond politeness markers: Multiple morphological and lexical differences index deferential meanings in Korean
Is It Polite to Hiss: Nonverbal Sound Objects as Markers of (Im)politeness in Korean
This paper explores the politeness-related functions of an ingressive hissing-like sound that occurs frequently in Korean and which is typically transcribed as ssup . This nonverbal sound is produced by drawing air alongside the tongue or between the teeth and may appear either before the production of a turn, or during turn production. Previous studies have shown that Korean speakers produce more frequent hisses when addressing status superiors.…
The embodied enactment of politeness metapragmatics
Whereas previous research on metapragmatic talk has tended to focus on what people say about politeness, the current paper additionally explores how people talk about politeness. More specifically, we extend our analysis to the embodied resources, including gestures and nonverbal behaviour, that people use when enacting politeness talk. The data comes from two semi-structured interviews that we conducted with South Korean participants, both of wh…
Gestures are modulated by social context: A study of multimodal politeness across two cultures
This paper investigates gesture as a resource for marking politeness-related meanings. We asked 14 Korean and 14 Catalan participants to retell a cartoon, once to an unknown superior and once to a close friend. Participants in both languages curtail gestures when interacting with a socially distant superior. Speakers of both languages produced fewer gestures when addressing the superior, reduced their gesture space, decreased the encoding of mann…
Ideologies in Second Language Learning: The Case of Korean Address Terms
This paper explores how textbooks for second language learners make ideologically motivated decisions regarding which forms of the target language are included in the curriculum. We explore this question via an analysis of Korean language textbooks, at a time when Korean society is becoming increasingly globalized and multicultural. The focus is on the representation of the highly developed system of address terms in Korean. Although address term…
Effects of L2 experience on Mandarin listeners’ perception of Korean politeness
Second Language knowledge of pragmatic meanings: What do learners of Korean know about the Korean pronouns ce and na
Multimodal Im/politeness: Signed, Spoken, Written
Multimodal im/politeness: Introduction
ZORA (Zurich Open Repository and Archive) provides open and worldwide access to the research and scholarly output of the University of Zurich, Switzerland. A focus is on qualified scientific publications. ZORA is operated by the University Library together with the Central IT of the University of Zurich
How Korean language students studying in Seoul navigate linguistic and cultural homogeneity
“The denigration of Korean men’s genitals”: Precision grip gestures and the multimodal construction of “taking offence” in media discourse surrounding anti-feminism in South Korea
This paper presents a critical discourse analysis of metapragmatic commentary in online news surrounding the emergence of a new offensive gesture in South Korea. This new offensive hand shape is a “precision grip” gesture whereby the thumb and index finger are pursed together to represent small size. In May 2021, male-dominated online communities started to take offence at the prevalence of this gesture in advertising campaigns, viewing it as a m…
L2 Pragmatic Development in Constructing and Negotiating Contextual Meanings
The way in which L2 learners construct pragmatic and social meanings, including stances and identities, is emerging as an important research concern. In this study, we explore how L2 learners develop the ability to construct and negotiate pragmatic and social meanings, with a focus on meanings manifested in specific contexts, namely, contextual meanings. Specifically, we trace the development made by a group of 30 L2 Korean learners in their unde…
Linguistics (26 works) · Psychology (26 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (21 works) · Politeness (19 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Communication (8 works) · Computer Science (8 works)