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about the international society for language studies, inc.
The International Society for Language Studies, Inc., (ISLS) is an interdisciplinary association of scholars who explore critical perspectives on language. Within these perspectives, language is understood as both shaping and being shaped by historical, political, social, and cultural contexts. Research on language from such perspectives has historically been marginalized as well as compartmentalized within artificially constructed academic disciplines. The primary purpose of ISLS is to bridge these arbitrary disciplinary territories and provide a forum for both theoretical and empirical research, from existing and emergent research methodologies, for exploring the relationships among language, power, discourses, and social practices.
Activities include
A biennial conference for the presentation of research
A quarterly journal, Critical Inquiry in Language Studies
ISLS publication initiatives
A weekly newsletter with language news from around the world
Our History
2011
ISLS held its biennial conference in Oranjestad, Arbua, where once again participants
gathered from all inhabited continents
on earth to share their research with one another.2010
ISLS began to offer
online access to all issues of the journal,
Critical Inquiry in Language
Studies, through the members' area as an
automatic benefit of membership.
We also published our
second volume of the Readings in Language
Studies book series, edited by John Watzke,
Paul Chamness Miller and Miguel Mantero.2009
ISLS held its biennial conference in Orlando, Florida. Participants once again gathered
from all inhabited continents on
earth to share their research with one another.
2008
ISLS introduced the first
volume of its Readings in Language
Studies book series, edited by Miguel Mantero,
Paul Chamness Miller, and John Watzke. The book is
available for purchase
here. Planning was
underway for the 2009 conference in Orlando,
Florida. The society introduced an e-mail summary
of the week's language new stories from around the
globe as an automatic benefit of membership.
2007
Hawaii was the site of the 2007 conference. Taylor and Francis began publishing the
society's journal, Critical Inquiry in Language
Studies: An International Journal. Terry A.
Osborn and Timothy Reagan completed their terms as
editors, and the society's executive board named
John Watzke of University of Portland as the editor
for a five year term. 2005
Montreal was the site of the 2005 conference. The gathering featured over
200
papers, luncheon, and evening reception, with
participants from Argentina, Australia, Brazil,
Canada, China, Columbia, Denmark, Finland, Jamaica,
Japan, Jordan, Korea, Kuwait, Malaysia, Mexico,
Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Oman, Puerto
Rico, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, Taiwan,
Thailand, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, and
the United States. 2004
At the start of 2004, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates began publishing Critical Inquiry in Language Studies: An International Journal, the official journal of the society, edited by Terry A. Osborn and Timothy Reagan. A journal subscription became an automatic benefit of membership.
2003
As
the 2003 inaugural conference of the International
Society for Language Studies approached, scholars
from around the globe began to join the fledgling
association. These scholars included members from
Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, China,
Denmark, Finland, Greece, Hong Kong, India,
Indonesia, Iran, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Malaysia,
New Zealand, Nigeria, Philippines, Poland, Portugal,
Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan,
Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United
Kingdom, and the United States of America. A number
of these members converged in St. Thomas for what
was perhaps the most beautiful setting imaginable
for a conference. As the summer progressed, the
founding membership rolls were filled, and ISLS
began to have more new members enroll almost daily
as the society was incorporated in the State of
Delaware. At the same time, planning was underway
for an official journal for ISLS and a 2005
conference in Montreal. ISLS was recognized as a
non-profit 501(c)6 corporation by the Internal
Revenue Service of the United States. 2002
Professors from universities in the United States and Canada began planning a conference to be held in St. Thomas, USVI, with the theme of "The Transformation of Language Education and Research." The discussions led to the suggestion that a new scholarly association, in addition to a mere single conference, was the transformation needed.