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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 

The recording of the ISLE Forum on "Teaching with Impact: Linguistics in the Classroom" with Julia Schlüter, Elen Le Foll & Katharina Deckert is now available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/LiBrfWKw_14 

 

The recording of the ISLE Forum on "Outreach with Impact: Linguistics in the Public Sphere" with Celeste Rodríguez Louro (moderated by Martin Schweinberger) is now available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/FKvCJqipc-4 

 

Some of the events at ISLE8 were livestreamed and are now available on the ISLE YouTube channel.

This includes:

Presidential address by Bernd Kortmann: English linguistics in the next quarter century: Prospects, problems, promises

Plenary lecture by Alexandra D’Arcy: Unbroken sequences of language transmission and the child as a ‘linguistic historian’

Panel discussion: From ISLE1 to ISLE8 and beyond

Plenary lecture by Daniela Landert: “what the seid Sere Harry entendith to do therin I knowe not”: Claims of no knowledge in the history of English

           ISLE prizes presentations

           Plenary lecture by Graeme Trousdale: The surprising English language

The recording of the ISLE Forum on "How Much Room for Non-Mainstream Approaches in (English) Linguistics?" with Axel Bohmann, John Booth, and Elizabeth Hanks is now available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/1DE8ajd1Hkc 

ISLE is excited to announce the winners of the ISLE Teaching Innovation and ISLE Outreach Prizes!

Congratulations to the first winner of the ISLE Teaching Innovation Prize: Julia Schlüter from the University of Bamberg. Learn more about her winning project "Empowering Non-Native English Language Professionals" here.

Elen Le Foll (University of Cologne) received an honorable mention for her project "Data Analysis for the Language Sciences: A Very Gentle Introduction to Statistics and Data Visualisation in R" (find the teaching material she developed here).

Congratulations to the first winner of the ISLE Outreach Prize: Celeste Rodríguez Louro from the University of Western Australia! You can find her winning outreach portfolio here. 

More information on the ISLE Prizes:

Teaching Innovation Prize

Outreach Prize

The recording of the ISLE Forum on "Many Shades of Ink: The Study of Late Modern Biographical Discourse as a Journey of Investigation and Discovery" with Marina Dossena, Nuria Calvo Cortés and Massimo Sturiale is now available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Xdcu1-sYa2Y

The recording of the ISLE Forum on "Studying Telecinematic Language" with Valentin Werner (moderator), Robin Queen, Monika Bednarek and Christian R. Hoffmann is now available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/lTROL8qG4sY