ISLE Elections Now Open!
The ISLE Executive Committee has two positions to fill: President-Elect and Vice-President for Research. Many thanks to our Nominations Commitee who identified and approached these candidates, and to all the candidates for agreeing to stand for election.
Voting is now open - please vote for your preferred candidate for each position by 26th February. To vote, please log into your ISLE member account at https://www.isle-linguistics.org/login then look at the right-hand 'Member Menu' and click the 'Elections' link. This will take you to further information about the candidates and their vision for the role. The candidates are as follows:
President-Elect of ISLE
- Sali A. Tagliamonte, University of Toronto, Canada
- Graeme Trousdale, The University of Edinburgh, UK
Vice-President for Research
- Christine Elsweiler, University of Innsbruck, Austria
- Paula Rodríguez-Puente, University of Oviedo, Spain
- Javier Ruano-García, University of Salamanca, Spain
The next ISLE Expert Forum will take place on 19 February 2025, 4:00pm (CET). Valentin Werner (moderator), Robin Queen, Monika Bednarek and Christian R. Hoffmann will discuss "Studying Telecinematic Language" (Zoom link).
The ISLE8 organizing committee has extended the submission deadline for full papers and posters to 21 February 2025 (23:59 CET). For more information please visit: https://isle8conference.com/call-for-papers/
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
