Böcker av Suzanne Romaine

Suzanne Romaine defines and describes the linguistic features of Pidgin and Creole languages. Ongoing development places the study of these languages within the context of current issues of linguistic theory: language acquisition, and universals of change.

In this volume Dr Romaine lays the foundation for a field of research encompassing both historical linguistics and sociolinguistics, which aims to investigate and account for language variation within a particular speech community over time. Preliminary suggestions for a truly integrative sociolinguistic theory will be of interest to sociolinguists, historical linguists and general linguists.

Using a cross-disciplinary approach, this volume shows how language and discourse play key roles in understanding and communicating gender and culture. The starting point and central focus of the book is linguistics, but the author also draws on anthropology, biology, philosophy and psychology.