Call for Submissions: 2025 Richard M. Hogg Prize
The International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE) has been awarding the Richard M. Hogg Prize annually since 2008. The prize goes to the best paper on any research-related topic in English language or English linguistics written by an early-career researcher, defined here as a PhD student or a post-doc who has been awarded their doctorate within the last two years at the time of submission. Candidates must also be members of ISLE.
The winner will receive a cash prize of £500 and the winning paper will be published on the ISLE website. In addition, the author of the winning paper will be encouraged to submit their manuscript to English Language and Linguistics, the official journal of ISLE. The deadline for submissions is 15 May 2025.
For more information on the prize, including length requirements, style sheet, and winning papers of previous editions, see https://www.isle-linguistics.org/activities/richard-m-hogg-prize.
New ISLE Expert Forums have been announced for 2025!
Have a look at https://www.isle-linguistics.org/activities/outreach for details.
Congratulations to the 2024 Richard M. Hogg Prize Winner Lasse Pröbsting! The winning paper is titled: "Restoring distinction: Analogical change in English strong verbs".
More information on the prize can be found at: https://www.isle-linguistics.org/activities/richard-m-hogg-prize
From 2025 onwards, ISLE offers two new prizes - the Teaching Innovation Prize and the Outreach Prize.
Submission due date for each is April 30, 2025.
For more information, see https://www.isle-linguistics.org/activities/isle-prizes
The recording of the ISLE Forum on "English Linguistics Around the World - Australia and Japan" with Laurence Anthony and Peter Crosthwaite (moderated by Martin Schweinberger) is now available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRD3mfOf20E
We are seeking proposals from people interested in organising future ISLE Online Forum sessions. Propose a topic that would be of interest to ISLE members and suggest who would be the invited speakers (max. 3). If you would like to organise such a session, please submit a proposal via this Google form (open on an ongoing basis). Submitting a proposal does not obligate you to go ahead with the session at this stage; if your proposal is accepted, we will confirm this with you and find a mutually convenient date in 2025 for the event. Please note that the organiser (who would normally be the Chair of the session) and the speakers all take part on a voluntary basis.
For more information and to submit a proposal please go to the following URL:
The recording of the ISLE Forum on "Normative Linguistics, Twenty-five Years on" with Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Morana Lukač & Linda Pillière (moderated by Yoko Iyeiri) is now available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/-ttj95vEAVg
The recording of the ISLE Forum on "From the Core to the Periphery: The Value of the Marginal Aspects of Language" with Brian D. Joseph, Gunther Kaltenböck & Belén Méndez-Naya (moderated by María José López-Couso) is now available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYXI7Iv4b9k
