Call for Proposals: English Language and Linguistics - Special Issue
The journal English Language and Linguistics (ELL) publishes one special issue each year, and the journal editors would now like to invite proposals for the special issue to be published in 2024.
Special issues should be focused on a specific topic which is of key interest to specialists in the various sub-disciplines of English linguistics. The topics and contents of past special issues can be consulted by viewing back issues on the ELL website:
As a rough guideline, a special issue should be a collection of 5–10 targeted (often commissioned) articles, including a lead article or 'perspectivizing' introduction by the editor(s), with a maximum length of 100,000 words for the entire special issue. However, no strict format is prescribed and editors are welcome to propose novel formats (for example, articles may be followed by responses from others). All articles submitted for a special issue will be subjected to the same rigorous quality and reviewing standards as regular submissions to English Language and Linguistics. The issue's editor(s) will collaborate closely with one of the regular editors of the journal during the reviewing stage and when deciding upon the ultimate selection of papers to be published.
The deadline for the first drafts of articles is expected to be around 1 July 2023, and the final revised versions of all articles in the special issue must be submitted by 1 March 2024 at the latest (to be ready for publication in the second issue of the year).
Proposals for a possible special issue should be no longer than 4 pages, including:
- information on the relevance of the topic and on what makes it attractive to the international English Linguistics community
- the special expertise of the editor(s)
- a preliminary list of contributors
- potentially, short abstracts of the papers (c. 50–75 words)
Please send proposals by 15 November 2022 to the following email address:
ellsubmissions@cambridge.org.
This will distribute the proposal to all three editors of ELL. Feel free to contact any or all of the journal editors in advance of this deadline if you have any queries about any of this. The journal editors would encourage those thinking of submitting a proposal to contact them to discuss it.
Journal editors:
Laurel Brinton (brinton@mail.ubc.ca)
Patrick Honeybone (patrick.honeybone@ed.ac.uk)
Bernd Kortmann (bernd.kortmann@anglistik.uni-freiburg.de)
Please note that the Hogg Prize deadline has been extended to April 30, 2022. For more information on the prize, including length requirements, style sheet and previous winning papers, see https://www.isle-linguistics.org/activities/richard-m-hogg-prize.
The next International Society for the Linguistics of English Summer School will take place between 4th and 8th July 2022. The meeting will address the theme: The Empire Speaks Back in a Postcolonial Dialect: Decolonising English Linguistics for the 21st Century. The ISLE summer school 2022 will be hosted by Prof. Karen Corrigan (current ISLE President). For more information see https://www.isle-linguistics.org/activities/isle-summer-school/ and https://blogs.ncl.ac.uk/islesummerschool2022/
The deadline for application to the Richard M. Hogg Prize is on March 31, 2022. For further information see https://www.isle-linguistics.org/activities/richard-m-hogg-prize
As of June 2021, Mirka Honkanen has taken on the role of ISLE treasurer. The society is very grateful to Jakob Leimgruber for his dedicated work for the society!
The 2021 Richard M. Hogg Prize was awarded to James Stratton for his paper entitled "Where did wer go? Lexical variation and change in third-person male adult noun referents in Old and Middle English".
Rhys Sandow received an honorable mention for "Interpreting identity effects in sociolinguistic variation and change: The role of identity in the usage and recognition of Anglo-Cornish dialect lexis".
As of October 2020, Sofia Rüdiger has taken over as new webmaster of the ISLE site. Many thanks to Thorsten Brato for his years of service to the ISLE community!
The 2020 Richard M. Hogg Prize was awarded to Raquel Romasanta for her paper entitled "Negation as a predictor of clausal complement choice in World Englishes".
Maryam Nasseri received an honorable mention for "Is postgraduate English academic writing more clausal or phrasal? Syntactic complexification at the crossroads of genre, proficiency, and statistical modelling".