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Communicating Gender
Taylor and Francis 1998; US$ 75.00Taking a cross-disciplinary approach, Suzanne Romaine's main concern is to show how language and discourse play key roles in understanding and communicating gender and culture. In addition to linguistics--which provides the starting point and central focus of the book--she draws on the fields of anthropology, biology, communication, education, economics,... more...
Socio-Historical Linguistics
Cambridge University Press 1982; US$ 37.00In this volume Dr Romaine lays the foundation for a field of research encompassing both historical linguistics and sociolinguistics. more...
Language in Australia
Cambridge University Press 1991; US$ 74.00Linguists and non-linguists will find in this volume a guide and reference source to the rich linguistic heritage of Australia. more...
Language in Society
OUP Oxford 2000; US$ 39.99Why have 1500 separate languages developed in the Pacific region? Why do Danes understand Norwegians better than Norwegians understand Danish? Is Ebonics a language or a dialect? Linguistics tends to ignore the relationship between languages and the societies in which they are spoken, while sociology generally overlooks the role of language in the... more...
Creole Genesis, Attitudes and Discourse
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1999; US$ 225.00This 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 from English, French and Spanish lexical bases and... more...
Tok Pisin Texts
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2003; US$ 173.00Tok 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 extensive fieldwork experience and vast knowledge of the... more...
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