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The International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE) has been awarding a young researchers' award, the Richard M. Hogg Prize, annually since 2008. The prize goes to the best paper on the English language by an early-career scholar, defined as a registered student not yet in possession of a doctoral degree, or a post-doctoral scholar within two years of the award of the doctorate at the time of submission. Submitting researchers 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 is encouraged to submit their manuscript to English Language and Linguisticsthe official journal of ISLE. The deadline for submissions is 15 June 2024.

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 submissions for the Richard M. Hogg Prize 2023 covered a wide range of topics, including the teaching of English as a foreign language in hybrid contexts, speech acts in historical Irish English, and metaphors in online forums.

After careful reading of the submissions, the committee members agreed to award an honourable mention to the paper “Attention to Diversity in Bilingual Education: Stakeholders’ Perceptions in a Bilingual Region”, written by Pablo Ramón Ramos (University of Jaén). The study offers an interesting analysis of the perspectives of educational stakeholders (students, teachers, and parents) on CLIL as implemented in several schools in a bilingual region in Valencia (Spain).

The Hogg Prize committee members congratulate Pablo Ramón Ramos on his paper. They also wish to thank the authors of the remaining submissions and encourage them as well as other early-career scholars to submit their works to the 2024 edition of the Richard M. Hogg Prize.

Our next ISLE online event features Gerold Schneider and Irina Nikishina as expert speakers on "Linguistics vs. AI" (Wed, 20 March, 10:00am CET). The Zoom link for the event is https://uqz.zoom.us/j/86007463544

The recording of the ISLE Forum on "English Linguistics After the Quantitative Turn" with Tove Larsson, Stefan Th. Gries and Laura Janda  is now available on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/9kq7vE-sZSs

The recording of the ISLE Forum on "English Linguistics in Teacher Education" with Julia Schlüter, Marcus Callies & Ignacio Palacios Martínez is now available on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muBfhiBrqGE

We welcome three new members to the ISLE Nominating Committee: 

  • Marina Dossena (University of Bergamo) 
  • Mikko Laitinen (University of Eastern Finland) 
  • Robert Mailhammer (Western Sydney University) 

They join existing members Kathryn Allan (UCL, Committee Chair) and Kate Burridge (Monash University, former Committee Chair). Many thanks to each of them for agreeing to join or continue on the committee. 

The recording of the ISLE Forum on "Replication and Replicability in English Linguistics" with Joseph Flanagan, Lukas Sönning and Martin Schweinberger is now available on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/Arabm36MI0A

We are pleased to announce that registration for the 2024 ISLE Summer School on "English(es) on the move: Exploring online data and online processing" in Freiburg is open. The Summer School will take place from July 22 to 27, 2024. Six of the courses offered will be in-presence classes, two will be offered fully online. All plenaries and panels will offered in a hybrid way. Early-bird registration will be possible until December 15, 2023. For detailed information please visit tinyurl.com/ISLE2024!