8th Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English

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News: Deadline extension and last call for papers

Following a number of requests, the ISLE 8 Organizing Committee has decided to extend the deadline for submissions of proposals for full papers and posters till 21 February 2025 at 23:59 CET.

Abstracts should be between 400 and 500 words (excluding references) and should clearly state research question(s), approach, data, method and (expected) results. Authors may submit a maximum of two abstracts if at least one of the proposals is co‐authored. Submission should be anonymous via ConfTool.

Please note that all presenters need to be members of ISLE prior to or at registration (if you are not a member yet, please visit https://www.isle-linguistics.org/join).

For any queries, please contact us at ISLE8.conference@usc.gal.

8th Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English

ISLE8 follows a series of conferences which started in 2008 (ISLE Inaugural Conference; Freiburg) and include ISLE2 (Boston, 2011), ISLE3 (Zurich, 2014), ISLE4 (Poznan, 2016, ISLE5 (London, 2018), ISLE6 (Joenssu, 2021) and ISLE7 (Brisbane, 2023).

ISLE8 will be hosted by the University of Santiago de Compostela from 1-4 September 2025.

The conference theme is English Linguistics on the Way: Expanding Horizons.

The conference is organized by the research groups Variation, Linguistic Change and Grammaticalization (VLCG) and Spoken English Research Team at the University of Santiago de Compostela (SPERTUS).