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 (32) | Order by:

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

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

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

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 | Article

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 | Article

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

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 | Article

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

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 | Review

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 | Article

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

Romaine, Suzanne 2000 Review of Wurm, Mühlhäusler & Tryon (1996): Atlas of languages of intercultural communication in the Pacific, Asia and the Americas Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 15:2, pp. 391–395 | Review

Rickford, John R. and Suzanne Romaine 1999 Preface Creole Genesis, Attitudes and Discourse: Studies celebrating Charlene J. Sato, Rickford, John R. and Suzanne Romaine (eds.), pp. 3–10 | Preface

Romaine, Suzanne 1999 Review of Wekker (1996): Creole languages and language acquisition Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 14:1, pp. 159–162 | Review

Romaine, Suzanne 1999 Changing Attitudes to Hawai’i Creole English: Fo’ find one good job, you gotta know how fo’ talk like one haole Creole Genesis, Attitudes and Discourse: Studies celebrating Charlene J. Sato, Rickford, John R. and Suzanne Romaine (eds.), pp. 287–302 | Article

Romaine, Suzanne and John R. Rickford 1999 Charlene Junko Sato (1951–1996): Biography and Bibliography Creole Genesis, Attitudes and Discourse: Studies celebrating Charlene J. Sato, Rickford, John R. and Suzanne Romaine (eds.), pp. 11–16 | Article

Romaine, Suzanne 1997 Gender, grammar, and the space in between Communicating Gender in Context, Kotthoff, Helga and Ruth Wodak (eds.), pp. 51–76 | Article

Romaine, Suzanne 1996 5. The status of sociological models and categories in explaining language variation Towards a Critical Sociolinguistics, Singh, Rajendra (ed.), pp. 99–114 | Article

Romaine, Suzanne 1995 The Grammaticalization of Irrealis in Tik Pisin Modality in Grammar and Discourse, Bybee, Joan L. and Suzanne Fleischman (eds.), pp. 389–428 | Article

Romaine, Suzanne 1995 Sociolinguistics Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef, Jan-Ola Östman and Jan Blommaert † (eds.), pp. 489–495 | Article

Romaine, Suzanne 1995 “Lice he no good”: on [r] and [l] in Tok Pisin Discourse, Grammar and Typology: Papers in honor of John W.M. Verhaar, Abraham, Werner, T. Givón and Sandra A. Thompson (eds.), pp. 309–318 | Article

Romaine, Suzanne 1994 Review of Winford (1993): Predication in Caribbean English Creoles Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 9:2, pp. 404–409 | Review

Romaine, Suzanne 1993 The Decline of Predicate Marking in Tok Pisin Atlantic Meets Pacific: A global view of pidginization and creolization, Byrne, Francis and John Holm † (eds.), pp. 251–260 | Article

Romaine, Suzanne 1992 The Evolution of Complexity in a Creole Language: Acquisition of Relative Clauses in Tok Pisin Studies in Language 16:1, pp. 139–182 | Article

Romaine, Suzanne 1990 Change and variation in the use of bai in young children's creolized Tok Pisin in Morobe Province Melanesian Pidgin and Tok Pisin: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Pidgins and Creoles in Melanesia, Verhaar, S.J., John W.M. (ed.), pp. 187–204 | Article

Romaine, Suzanne 1988 Some Differences Between Spoken and Written Tok Pisin English World-Wide 9:2, pp. 243–269 | Article

Romaine, Suzanne and Fiona Wright 1987 Short Forms in Tok Pisin Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 2:1, pp. 62–66 | To be specified

Romaine, Suzanne 1986 Review of Görlach (1985): Focus on: Scotland English World-Wide 7:1, pp. 137–140 | Review

Romaine, Suzanne 1985 Review of McCawley (1982): Thirty Million Theories of Grammar Studies in Language 9:1, pp. 154–158 | Review

Romaine, Suzanne 1985 Why the Problem of Language Acquisition should not be Explained Logicaly Studies in Language 9:2, pp. 255–270 | Review

Romaine, Suzanne 1985 The Problem of Short /a/ in Scotland English World-Wide 6:2, pp. 165–197 | Article

Romaine, Suzanne 1984 Review of Sandred (1983): Good or Bad Scots? Attitudes to Optional Lexical and Grammatical Usages in Edinburgh English World-Wide 5:2, pp. 270–273 | Review

Romaine, Suzanne 1983 Review of Cheshire (1982): Variation in an English Dialect. A Sociolinguistic Study English World-Wide 4:1, pp. 108–112 | Review

Romaine, Suzanne 1982 The reconstruction of language in its social context: methodology for a socio-historical linguistic theory Papers from the Fifth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Galway, April 6–10 1981, Ahlqvist, Anders (ed.), pp. 293–303 | Article

Romaine, Suzanne 1980 Review of Milroy (1980): Language and Social Networks English World-Wide 1:2, pp. 264–268 | Review

Romaine, Suzanne 1980 A critical overview of the methodology of urban British sociolinguistics English World-Wide 1:2, pp. 163–198 | Article