Gillian Brown

Gillian D. Brown (born 1937) is a British linguist. She is known for her expertise on discourse analysis. She obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh in 1971, presenting the thesis "Aspects of a phonology of Lumasaaba". 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 1937 births Living people Linguists from England Women linguists Pragmaticists Linguists of English British phonologists Academics of the University of Edinburgh Fellows of Clare College, Cambridge Discourse analysts