Suzanne Romaine
List of John Benjamins publications in which Suzanne Romaine is involved.
Book series
ISSN 2214-1057
Titles
Tok Pisin Texts: From the beginning to the present
Peter Mühlhäusler, Thomas E. Dutton and Suzanne Romaine
Tok Pisin is one of the most important languages of Melanesia and is used in a wide range of public and private functions in Papua New Guinea. The language has featured prominently in Pidgin and Creole linguistics and has featured in a number of debates in theoretical linguistics. With their… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, T9] 2003. x, 284 pp.
Creole Genesis, Attitudes and Discourse: Studies celebrating Charlene J. Sato
Edited by John R. Rickford and Suzanne Romaine
This collection in honor of creolist Charlene Junko Sato (1951–1996) brings together contributions by leading specialists in pidgin-creole studies in three primary areas: Pidgin-Creole Genesis and Development; Attitudes and Education, and Creole Discourse and Literature. The varieties covered come… read more[Creole Language Library, 20] 1999. viii, 418 pp.
2022 Sociolinguistics Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 1277–1285 | Chapter
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
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
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
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
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
1999 Preface Creole Genesis, Attitudes and Discourse: Studies celebrating Charlene J. Sato, Rickford, John R. and Suzanne Romaine (eds.), pp. 3–10 | Preface
1999 Review of Wekker (1996): Creole languages and language acquisition Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 14:1, pp. 159–162 | Review
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
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
1997 Gender, grammar, and the space in between Communicating Gender in Context, Kotthoff, Helga and Ruth Wodak (eds.), pp. 51–76 | Article
1996 5. The status of sociological models and categories in explaining language variation Towards a Critical Sociolinguistics, Singh, Rajendra (ed.), pp. 99–114 | Article
1995 The Grammaticalization of Irrealis in Tik Pisin Modality in Grammar and Discourse, Bybee, Joan L. and Suzanne Fleischman (eds.), pp. 389–428 | Article
1995 Sociolinguistics Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef, Jan-Ola Östman and Jan Blommaert † (eds.), pp. 489–495 | Article
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
1994 Review of Winford (1993): Predication in Caribbean English Creoles Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 9:2, pp. 404–409 | Review
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
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
1988 Some Differences Between Spoken and Written Tok Pisin English World-Wide 9:2, pp. 243–269 | Article
1987 Short Forms in Tok Pisin Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 2:1, pp. 62–66 | To be specified
1986 Review of Görlach (1985): Focus on: Scotland English World-Wide 7:1, pp. 137–140 | Review
1985 Review of McCawley (1982): Thirty Million Theories of Grammar Studies in Language 9:1, pp. 154–158 | Review
1985 Why the Problem of Language Acquisition should not be Explained Logicaly Studies in Language 9:2, pp. 255–270 | Review
1985 The Problem of Short /a/ in Scotland English World-Wide 6:2, pp. 165–197 | Article
1983 Review of Cheshire (1982): Variation in an English Dialect. A Sociolinguistic Study English World-Wide 4:1, pp. 108–112 | Review
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
1980 Review of Milroy (1980): Language and Social Networks English World-Wide 1:2, pp. 264–268 | Review
1980 A critical overview of the methodology of urban British sociolinguistics English World-Wide 1:2, pp. 163–198 | Article