News

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!

The recording of the ISLE Forum on "Communicating (English) Linguistics to the Public" with Kate Burridge and Dan McIntyre is now available on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/-hhAoH8OjsA

The recording of Edgar Schneider's Expert Forum on "New Directions in World Englishes Research" is now available on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXtSIvW_Eeg

You can find plans for fantastic new outreach activities by ISLE President Bernd Kortmann at https://www.isle-linguistics.org/activities/outreach.

We just launched the ISLE YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@isle2008. We publish selected video material from our summer schools, conferences, and other events.

 

The 2022 Richard M. Hogg Prize was awarded to Elen Le Foll for her paper entitled "Schulenglisch: A multi-dimensional description of the variety of English taught in German schools".