The International Society for the Linguistics of English

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The central aim of ISLE is to promote the study of English Language, that is, the study of the structure and history of standard and non-standard varieties of English, in terms of both form and function, at an international level.

We aim for the society to provide a geographically and theoretically neutral central contact point for all those who are academically active and who identify with this aim.

Although there are country-specific ‘Anglistik’, ‘English Language and Literature’ or ‘Linguistics’ associations (and we hope to be in contact with these, where appropriate) there is currently no international umbrella organisation fulfilling this role. More...

News

ISLE formally came into existence at the first ISLE conference, which took place from the 8th to the 11th of October 2008, in Freiburg, Germany. More...

Richard M. Hogg Prize 2010

The 2010 competition is now open, deadline 31 March, for a paper on any research-related topic in English language or English linguistics. More...

Election for President-Elect

The election for President-elect closed on 15 October, and Professor Christian Mair (University of Freiburg) was elected. 148 members of ISLE voted in this election. Professor Mair joins the Executive Committee immediately, and takes over as President at the ISLE 2011 Conference in Boston (see below).

ISLE 2011

The next ISLE Conference will take place in Boston, Massachussetts, USA on the 17-21 June 2011.

» ISLE 2011 Conference website

The English Project

The English Project is a project based in Winchester, England, to create a museum for the English language where “visitors - both physically and virtually - will be able to explore the English language in all its vigorous complexity across time and geography” (text taken from the project’s website).

The ISLE Vice-President for the Profession, Bas Aarts, is in discussion with the project’s founders and there are plans for ISLE to help guide the museum’s work. More information about the English Project can be found on their website.