Call for proposals to organise the ISLE10 conference in 2029
ISLE is seeking calls for proposals to organise the ISLE10 conference in 2029. If you are interested in hosting ISLE10, please prepare a 2-3 page proposal with your plans, including the proposed month (of 2029), venue, any umbrella topic/theme, envisaged plenary speakers, information about how funding will be sourced, and details of the organising team and their prior experience of organising conferences/workshops. Please send your 2-3 page proposal to the ISLE Secretary by email (secretary@isle-linguistics.or
We are delighted to announce the outcome of the 2026 Richard M. Hogg Prize competition. The winning paper is:
'Should I stay or should I go? The language of not-so-straightforward forms of belonging and disbelonging' by Miriam Neuhausen (Universität Heidelberg)
An honourable mention is also awarded to:
'I don't know why I ever done it: Patterns of preterite lexical do in a sample of colonial Late Modern English' by Madeleine Clews (University of Western Australia)
Many congratulations from all members of the ISLE board!
The International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE) is delighted to announce the ISLE Teaching Innovation Prize.
This prize seeks to recognize and celebrate innovative teaching projects, resources, or initiatives that advance the teaching of English linguistics and language studies.
The prize is open to ISLE members and subsumes:
- A cash prize of 500 EUR
- A dedicated section on the ISLE website to showcase their initiative
- An announcement and recognition during the next ISLE conference
- An invitation to present in the ISLE online forum
All submissions must be received by November 30, 2026.
For details, see https://www.isle-linguistics.org/activities/isle-teaching-prize
The International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE) is delighted to announce the ISLE Outreach Prize.
This prize seeks to recognize and celebrate outreach initiatives that advance the public’s awareness of English linguistics.
The prize is open to ISLE members and subsumes:
- A cash prize of 500 EUR
- A dedicated section on the ISLE website to showcase their initiative
- An announcement and recognition during the next ISLE conference
- An invitation to present in the ISLE online forum
All submissions must be received by November 30, 2026.
For details, see https://www.isle-linguistics.org/activities/isle-outreach-prize
The Nominating Committee is tasked with selecting candidates for election to ISLE Executive Committee positions. Kate Burridge has recently stepped down from the Nominating Committee after several years (since 2018) and we would like to extend our thanks to Kate for all of her hard work on the committee over the years.
We are also pleased to announce that Akiko Nagano (University of Shizuoka) has agreed to join the Nominating Committee in her place. Welcome, Akiko! The other members remain the same and we are grateful for their continued support. The full Nominating Committee is therefore as follows:
Kathryn Allen, Chair (University College London, UK)
Marina Dossena (University of Bergamo, Italy)
Mikko Laitinen (University of Eastern Finland, Finland)
Robert Mailhammer (Western Sydney University, Australia)
Akiko Nagano (University of Shizuoka, Japan)
We invite ISLE members to submit proposals for future ISLE online forum sessions that they would like to organise. Please see below for more details and for a form to submit your proposal:
Proposals for ISLE online forum sessions
Examples of previous online fora that were organised by ISLE members include 'Many Shades of Ink: The Study of Late Modern Biographical Discourse as a Journey of Investigation and Discovery', 'Studying Telecinematic Language', 'Vulgarity in English: Language, Creativity, and Social Meaning', and the most recent of these, 'Historical Corpora in World Englishes'. We welcome any themes relating to research within the remit of ISLE, or broader issues pertaining to aspects of academia.
The recording of the ISLE Forum on "Historical Corpora in World Englishes" with Robert Fuchs, Rotimi O. Oladipupo, Danica Salazar & Guyanne Wilson is now available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/2KqWMpkVz5Q
The recording of the ISLE Forum on "Vulgarity in English: Language, Creativity, and Social Meaning" with Kate Burridge, Kristy Beers Fägersten & Karyn Stapleton is now available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/l3K4v4LtDTQ
