Josh Brown
List of John Benjamins publications in which Josh Brown is involved.
Book series
ISSN 2452-2120
2026 Never ask, never apologise: Politeness strategies in Italian merchant letters between London, Milan, Florence, 1397–1401 Journal of Historical Pragmatics: Online-First Articles | Article
This paper details two case-studies in which politeness strategies are conveyed through practices of mitigation in Italian merchant letters during the Renaissance. The first case-study concerns the successful negotiation of trade practices between Italian merchants working in London with the… read more
2024 Lingua francas as evidence of standard language ideology in historical perspective Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages: Online-First Articles | Article
The paper considers historical lingua francas and standard language ideology from the framework of ‘language history from below’. Although some work has been devoted to mixed forms of language in studies of standardisation, little attention has been paid to lingua francas. This paper focusses on… read more
2017 Continuity in foreign language education in Australia: The Language Bonus plan Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 40:3, pp. 280–310 | Article
This article discusses the validity of the bonus for languages other than English (known as the Language Bonus) established in Australia to boost participation in language education. In subjecting this incentive plan to empirical investigation, we not only address a gap in the literature, but… read more
2015 Functional Convergence and Extension in Contact: Syntactic and Semantic Attributes of the Progressive Aspect in Pennsylvania Dutch Germanic Heritage Languages in North America: Acquisition, attrition and change, Johannessen, Janne Bondi † and Joseph C. Salmons (eds.), pp. 135–160 | Article
This paper investigates the extension of the progressive aspect in contemporary Pennsylvania Dutch. The scope of convergence in contact varieties is a debated subject in theoretical linguistics; the most recent and promising research finds that convergence in contact is not a simple one-to-one… read more