Susan Gass (born 1943) is an American Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize-winner[1] linguist.
She is currently a professor emerita, retired from the Department of Linguistics, Languages, and Cultures at Michigan State University.
[4] One of her major publications is a journal article, published in Applied Linguistics in 1985, entitled Non-native/Non-native Conversations: A Model for Negotiation of Meaning.
Varonis and Gass noted that negotiation of meaning was the most common among non-native speaker/non-native speaker pairs.
She has co-written books with Larry Selinker, Alison Mackey, Charlene Polio, and Bill VanPatten.