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Suzanne Romaine is a researcher affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their work spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on physics and astronomy, with a significant emphasis on radiation phenomena. The main subfields explored in their research include radiation, linguistics and language, literature and literary theory, astronomy and astrophysics, and materials chemistry.

The research topics covered by Romaine include:

  • X-ray spectroscopy and fluorescence analysis
  • Nuclear physics and applications
  • Multilingual education and policy
  • Second language learning and teaching
  • Atomic and subatomic physics research
  • Advanced X-ray imaging techniques
  • Conservation, biodiversity, and resource management

Romaine's recent published papers demonstrate the diversity of their research. These include:

  • "Language Equality & Schooling: Global Challenges & Unmet Promises" (2024) published in Daedalus
  • "Linguistic diversity and conservation opportunities at UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Africa" (2021) published in Conservation Biology
  • "Designing miniature x-ray optics for the SmallSat lunar science mission concept CubeX" (2020) published in Applied Optics
  • "Special opportunities for conserving cultural and biological diversity: The co-occurrence of Indigenous languages and UNESCO Natural World Heritage Sites" (2020) published in Parks Stewardship Forum
  • "X-ray Studies of Planetary Systems: A 2020 Decadal Survey White Paper" (2020) published on arXiv (Cornell University)

Romaine has frequently collaborated with several coauthors, including Leandra Sethares, Daniele Spiga, R. Bruni, L. J. Gorenflo, and Jaesub Hong, each with multiple coauthored publications.

Their research has appeared in various publication venues, notably:

  • Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray
  • Conservation Biology
  • Daedalus
  • Applied Optics
  • Parks Stewardship Forum

Best Publications

  • Vanishing Voices: The Extinction of the World's Languages

    Daniel Nettle;Suzanne Romaine

  • The Cambridge history of the English language

    Richard M. Hogg;N. F. Blake;Roger Lass;Suzanne Romaine

  • Language in Society: An Introduction to Sociolinguistics

    Suzanne Romaine

  • Reversing Language Shift

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  • The Use of like as a Marker of Reported Speech and Thought: A Case of Grammaticalization in Progress

    Suzanne Romaine;Deborah Lange

  • Co-occurrence of linguistic and biological diversity in biodiversity hotspots and high biodiversity wilderness areas

    L. J. Gorenflo;Suzanne Romaine;Russell A. Mittermeier;Kristen Walker-Painemilla

  • Pidgin and Creole Languages

    Suzanne Romaine

  • Socio-Historical Linguistics: Its Status and Methodology

    Suzanne Romaine

  • Semilingualism: A Half-Baked Theory of Communicative Competence

    Marilyn Martin-Jones;Suzanne Romaine

  • The Language of Children and Adolescents: The Acquisition of Communicative Competence

    Suzanne Romaine

  • Planning for the survival of linguistic diversity

    Suzanne Romaine

  • Sociolinguistic variation in speech communities

    Suzanne Romaine

  • James Milroy and Lesley Milroy, Authority in language: Investigating language prescription and standardisation . London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985.

    Suzanne Romaine

  • ON THE PROBLEM OF SYNTACTIC VARIATION AND PRAGMATIC MEANING IN SOCIOLINGUISTIC THEORY

    Suzanne Romaine

  • Preserving Endangered Languages

    Suzanne Romaine

  • Language in Society: An Introduction to Sociolinguistics

    Donald Winford;Suzanne Romaine

  • The Bilingual and Multilingual Community

    Suzanne Romaine

  • The relative clause marker in Scots English: Diffusion, complexity, and style as dimensions of syntactic change

    Suzanne Romaine

  • Variation in Language and Gender

    Suzanne Romaine

  • The body in the mind. The bodily basis of meaning, imagination, and reason: Mark Johnson, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. 1987. US $27.95.

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  • The Impact of Language Policy on Endangered Languages

    Suzanne Romaine

  • One Speaker, Two Languages: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Code-Switching:

    Suzanne Romaine

  • Socio-Historical Linguistics: Its Status and Methodology

    Anthony S. Kroch;Suzanne Romaine

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel Nettle
Daniel Nettle Newcastle University
Elizabeth Closs Traugott
Elizabeth Closs Traugott Stanford University
Joshua A. Fishman
Joshua A. Fishman Yeshiva University
Douglas W. Maynard
Douglas W. Maynard University of Wisconsin–Madison
Paul Drew
Paul Drew University of York
Alessandro Duranti
Alessandro Duranti University of California, Los Angeles
Monica Heller
Monica Heller University of Toronto
Kendall A. King
Kendall A. King University of Minnesota
Carol Myers-Scotton
Carol Myers-Scotton Michigan State University
Walt Wolfram
Walt Wolfram North Carolina State University

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