Research in Progress
I'd be happy to share research and "in preparation" manuscripts for commentary and suggestions. Some of these are manuscripts that need polishing, others are chaotic notes on a page. Please contact me.
Cultural Studies
Brown, Joshua R. "Pennsylvania Dutch Folk Art Tombstones."
Germanic Linguistics
Bousquette, Joshua, Joshua R. Brown, Michael T. Putnam, Joseph Salmons. The Linguistic Diversity of German: Sociolinguistic and Structural Variation in Europe and the Diaspora
Brown, Joshua R., and Nora Vosburg. "Social Factors in Language Shift." In Bousquette, Joshua, and Simon Pickl, (eds). Oxford Handbook of the German Language.
Brown, Joshua R., and Nora Vosburg. "Social Factors in Language Shift." In Bousquette, Joshua, and Simon Pickl, (eds). Oxford Handbook of the German Language.
Heritage Language Linguistics
Brown, Joshua R. "Postvernacular Pennsylvania Dutch."
Brown, Joshua R., and Angela Hoffman. "The Path of Transmission from Immigrant Swedish to Postvernacularity." In Auer, Anita, Joshua R. Brown, and Angela Hoffman (eds). Historical Sociolinguistic Studies of Language Islands in the Americas: Tracing the Development from Immigrant Languages to Postvernacularity.
Brown, Joshua R. and Luca Ciletti "Heritage German across Generations in Eau Claire, Wisconsin"
Jóhannsdóttir, Kristín Margrét, and Joshua R. Brown. "The Icelanders of Manitoba." In Auer, Anita, Joshua R. Brown, and Angela Hoffman (eds). Historical Sociolinguistic Studies of Language Islands in the Americas: Tracing the Development from Immigrant Languages to Postvernacularity.
Brown, Joshua R., and Angela Hoffman. "The Path of Transmission from Immigrant Swedish to Postvernacularity." In Auer, Anita, Joshua R. Brown, and Angela Hoffman (eds). Historical Sociolinguistic Studies of Language Islands in the Americas: Tracing the Development from Immigrant Languages to Postvernacularity.
Brown, Joshua R. and Luca Ciletti "Heritage German across Generations in Eau Claire, Wisconsin"
Jóhannsdóttir, Kristín Margrét, and Joshua R. Brown. "The Icelanders of Manitoba." In Auer, Anita, Joshua R. Brown, and Angela Hoffman (eds). Historical Sociolinguistic Studies of Language Islands in the Americas: Tracing the Development from Immigrant Languages to Postvernacularity.
Language Shift
Brown, Joshua R. Language Shift and Religious Change in Amish Appalachia.
Linguistic Landscapes
Brown, Joshua R. "The Diachronicity of Minneapolis's Linguistic Landscape."
Brown, Joshua R. "Historical Linguistic Landscapes and Postvernacularity."
Brown, Joshua R. "Historical Linguistic Landscapes and Postvernacularity."