Suzanne Romaine

List of John Benjamins publications for which Suzanne Romaine plays a role.

Book series

Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics (AHS)

Edited by Marijke J. van der Wal and Terttu Nevalainen

ISSN 2214-1057

Studies in World Language Problems (WLP)

Edited by Humphrey Tonkin

ISSN 1572-1183

Titles

Tok Pisin Texts: From the beginning to the present

Peter Mühlhäusler, Thomas E. Dutton and Suzanne Romaine

[Varieties of English Around the World, T9] 2003. x, 284 pp.

Subjects Creole studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Creole Genesis, Attitudes and Discourse: Studies celebrating Charlene J. Sato

Edited by John R. Rickford and Suzanne Romaine

[Creole Language Library, 20] 1999. viii, 418 pp.

Subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Articles

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Romaine, Suzanne 2022 Sociolinguistics Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 1277–1285

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Romaine, Suzanne 2011 1. Identity and multilingualism Bilingual Youth: Spanish in English-speaking societies, Potowski, Kim and Jason Rothman (eds.), pp. 7–30

The study of the relationships between identity and multilingualism is more timely than ever in view of the fact that most of the world’s population is multilingual and that globalization of economies and intensification of migration have facilitated a mixture of languages, cultures and identities… read more | Article

Romaine, Suzanne 2008 Language rights, human development and linguistic diversity in a globalizing world Unity and Diversity of Languages, Sterkenburg, Piet van (ed.), pp. 85–96

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Kytö, Merja and Suzanne Romaine 2005 “We had like to have been killed by thunder & lightning”: The semantic and pragmatic history of a construction that like to disappeared Journal of Historical Pragmatics 6:1, pp. 1–35

This article discusses the semantic and pragmatic history of a grammatical construction consisting of a form of Be/Have + like followed by an infinitival verb form, which became obsolete in Standard English in the nineteenth century, but still survives in some regional varieties of British and… read more | Article

Romaine, Suzanne 2005 Orthographic practices in the standardization of pidgins and creoles: Pidgin in Hawai'i as anti-language and anti-standard Creole Language in Creole Literatures, Mühleisen, Susanne (ed.), pp. 101–140

This article examines the role of orthography in the standardization of pidgins and creoles with particular reference to Pidgin in Hawai'i. Although linguists have generally stressed the desirability of phonemic over non-phonemic or etymological orthographies as a prerequisite for… read more | Article

Romaine, Suzanne 2005 Review of Sakoda & Siegel (2003): Pidgin grammar. An introduction to the creole language of Hawai‘i Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 20:2, pp. 387–392

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Romaine, Suzanne 2001 English. A corpus-based view of gender in British and American English Gender Across Languages: The linguistic representation of women and men, Hellinger, Marlis and Hadumod Bußmann (eds.), pp. 153–175

1.Introduction 2. English as pluricentric language 3. English as a gendered language 3.1 Titles and forms of address 3.2 Androcentric generics 3.3 Reforming English 3.4 Language reform in public and private discourse 4. Reforming discourse and rhetoric 5. … read more | Article