RC25 grants two awards:
- The Language & Society Distinguished Career Award
- The Award for Academic Excellence (which replaced the previous distinction between the Academic Excellence Award and the Graduate Student Award)
The Language & Society Distinguished Career Award is granted every four years during the World Congress of Sociology. It recognizes career excellence in the field of language and society.
The Award for Academic Excellence is granted every two years and is linked Language, Discourse & Society, the journal published by RC25. It promotes scholarship and recognizes academic excellence in the field of language and society published in LD&S.
2018 Awards
Award for Academic Excellence
Committee:
- Christian Karner, The University of Nottingham, the UK
- Everlyn Kisembe, Moi University, Kenya
- Eduardo Faingold, The University of Tulsa, USA
Chair:
- Cecilio Lapresta-Rey, University of Lleida, Spain
Award winners: Howard Davis , Graham Day , Marta Eichsteller & Sally Baker.
For the article “Language and autobiographical narratives: Motivation, capital and transnational imaginations”
Language & Society Distinguished Career Award
Committee:
- Nancy Hornberger, University of Pennsylvania, USA
- Roland Terborg, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
- Natalie Byfield, St. John’s University, USA
Chair:
- Cecilio Lapresta-Rey, University of Lleida, Spain
Award winner: Professor Florian Coulmas
2016 Awards
Committee:
- Erzsebet Barat, Institute of English and American Studies, University of Szeged, CEU, Budapest, Hungary
- Irina Chudnovskaia, Department of Sociology of Communicative Systems, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
- Roland Terborg, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
Chair:
- Stéphanie Cassilde, Centre d’Études en Habitat Durable, Belgium
2016 Academic Excellence Award
| Tiffany A. Dykstra | |
|---|---|
| “Assemblages of Syrian suffering: Rhetorical formations of refugees in Western media” (in Language, Discourse & Society, Vol. 4, N. 1, June 2016) is awarded the Academic Excellence Award of RC 25 in 2016 (Vienna, 3rd Forum of Sociology). |  |
Graduate Student Award
| Tomoaki Miyazaki | |
|---|---|
| “The Rhetorical Use of Anecdote in Online Political Discussion”, (in Language, Discourse & Society, Vol. 4, N. 1, June 2016) is awarded the Graduate Student Award of RC 25 in 2016 (Vienna, 3rd Forum of Sociology). |  |
2014 Awards
Committee:
- Nadezhda Georgieva, Trakia University, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria
- Corrine Kirchner, Columbia University, United States
- Anders Persson, Lund University, Sweden (RC25’s Academic Excellence Award 2012)
Chair:
- Stéphanie Cassilde, Centre d’Études en Habitat Durable, Belgium
Academic Excellence Award
| Raymond Oenbring and William Fielding | |
|---|---|
| “Young Adults’ Attitudes to Standard and Nonstandard English in an English-Creole Speaking Country: The Case of The Bahamas” (in Language, Discourse & Society, Vol. 3, N. 1, March 2014) is awarded the Academic Excellence Award of RC 25 in 2014 (Yokohama, XVIII ISA World Congress). |  |
Graduate Student Award
| Nassima Neggaz | |
|---|---|
| “Syria’s Arab Spring: Language Enrichment”, (in Language, Discourse & Society, Vol. 2, N. 2, July 2013) is awarded the Graduate Student Award of RC 25 in 2014 (Yokohama, XVIII ISA World Congress). |
2012 Awards
Committee:
- Devorah Kalekin-Fishman, University of Haifa
- Viviane de Melo Resende, University of Brasilia
- Sergei Riazantsev, Institute of Social and Political Research, Moscow
Chair:
- Stéphanie Cassilde, CEPS/INSTEAD, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
Academic Excellence Award
| Anders Persson, Lund University | |
|---|---|
| Anders Persson’s article “Front- and Backstage in Social Media” is awarded the Academic Excellence Award of RC 25 in 2012 (Buenos Aires, Second Forum of Sociology of ISA). |  |
Graduate Student Award
Due to any eligible article regarding this award, no article is awarded the Graduate Student Award of RC 25 in 2012 (Buenos Aires, Second Forum of Sociology of ISA).