📚 Last week we got the opportunity to display some relevant and recent publications at the 8th Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (isLE8)!
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Wide space with cloudy sky
Landscape view
#ISLE8 is over! Shoutout to a fantastic conference team & a wonderful conference location. See you at #ISLE9 in Leuven!
I was not able to make it to #ISLE8 - being able to stream the plenaries, panel discussion and the prize presentations is great!
and finally, the ISLE Teaching Innovation Prize awarded to Julia Schlüter with her project: "Empowering Non-Native English Language Professionals" #ISLE8
More information on the prize, the winning project, and the runner-up: www.isle-linguistics.org/activities/i...
The second prize is the ISLE Outreach Prize awarded to Celeste Rodríguez Louro #ISLE8
Her winning portfolio can be found on the ISLE website:
www.isle-linguistics.org/activities/i...
First up: the winner of the Richard M. Hogg Prize - Lasse Pröbsting - with his paper on "Restoring Distinction: Analogical Change in English Strong Verbs". #ISLE8
More info on the prize:
www.isle-linguistics.org/activities/r...
it's the final day of #ISLE8 and you can join for two more events: the presentation of ISLE prizes & Graeme Trousdale's plenary on "The Surprising English Language" 😮
livestream starting soon at: youtube.com/live/htcWLCh...
On to the next plenary by Daniela Landert (@dlandert.bsky.social) on "what the seid Sere Harry entendith to do therin I knowe not: Claims of no knowledge in the history of English". #HistoricalPragmatics #EnglishLinguistics #ISLE8
Livestream at: youtube.com/live/mfWJqHr...
Panel discussion on a stage. Sideshow shows pictures of previous isle online forum speakers
👋 to @coocho.bsky.social & @jaimackenzie.bsky.social who just made an appearance in the #ISLE8 panel discussion slideshow!
we just started the #ISLE8 panel discussion "From ISLE1 to ISLE8 and Beyond" feat. 5 past/current/future presidents of ISLE. Drop in if you'd like: youtube.com/live/mfWJqHr...
#ISLE8 about to come back on the livestream with María del Pilar García Mayo on "Connecting the Dots: Drawing Children’s Attention to Form in an EFL Setting"
youtube.com/live/TPhz3L9...
Raymond Hickey now introduces the New Cambridge History of the English Language - 6 volumes & 227 contributors - coming soon www.cambridge.org/core/series/...
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Stage in a plenary hall
The big stage for today, ready for poster plenaries, full plenaries, and a book presentation! #ISLE8
#ISLE8 decided to give each poster presenter a mini-plenary slot (4 minutes). A great idea to give posters a more prominent place in the conference program!
one hour until Alexandra D'Arcy's plenary on "Unbroken Sequences of Language Transmission and the Child as ‘Linguistic Historian’" #ISLE8
Follow along in the livestream: youtube.com/live/TPhz3L9...
as of #ISLE8 the "Expanding Circle Englishes and Beyond" Research Network (xE+) is open for business! sites.google.com/view/expandi...
We facilitate meetings & collaboration for everybody working on #ExpandingCircleEnglishes & beyond. #WorldEnglishes
Let us know if you're interested in joining us!
Path and trees
Wet wooden stairs going up a hill
View of the conference location on a hill
There was a bus transfer of course, but I couldn't resist walking to day 2 of #ISLE8
Next on the program: ISLE president Bernd Kortmann on "English Linguistics in the Next Quarter Century: Prospects, Problems, Promises" #ISLE8 (same streaming link as before if you want to join us live: youtube.com/live/1DfXbtQ...) #ISLE8 #EnglishLinguistics #Linguistics
Lecture hall full of people
#ISLE8 opening about to start in this beautiful room of the university 🤩
We're about to start with the official opening and presidential address by ISLE president Bernd Kortmann. You can join us via the (hopefully working) livestream: youtube.com/live/1DfXbtQ...
(should start transmitting as soon as we get started)
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time flies! the last #ExpandingWorkshop talk just started: Lisa Lehnen, Ninja Schulz & Carolin Biewer draw on geolocated social media data from 19 cities around the world to investigate the discursive construction of place, a truly global study closing the workshop part of the first day of #ISLE8
Mauritius as a setting at the crossroads of the Francophone & Anglophone, but above all Creolophone (Kreol/Morisien) - Susanne Mühleisen on a linguistic situation tricky to put into any of the World Englishes models #ExpandingWorkshop #ISLE8
Philipp Meer shows how access to English in Brazil is strongly stratified, with past statistics showing only 5% of inhabitants reporting knowledge of English. Meer asks: Does it then make sense to look at English in Brazil from a World Englishes perspective? #ExpandingWorkshop #ISLE8
we're back after the lunch break, with Kristine D. de Leon & Edward Jay M. Quinto taking us to Oman. They work with a corpus of WhatsApp voice messages (which I think is really cool) and investigate lexical borrowing, preposition usage, and verb forms #ExpandingWorkshop #ISLE8
no pictures from lunch because I was tied up in a board meeting, but let me tell you, the Spanish know how to host #ISLE8
Very interesting to consider the role of languaging in post-independence nation-building, with Timor-Leste aggressively sending students abroad. Quinto works with the children of those who fought for independence - thinking about emotions passed on to the next generation #ExpandingWorkshop #ISLE8
the final talk before the lunch break on English in Timor-Leste by Edward Jay M. Quinto - cutting-edge work on the perspective of young professionals based in a multilingual ecology involving Tetun, Portuguese, Indonesian and English. #ExpandingWorkshop #ISLE8
