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.
2023 Awards
Professor Celine-Marie Pascale has been awarded the Distinguished Career Award of RC25.
Dr. Judit Kroo, has been awarded the Award for Academic Excellence of RC25 ISA on the basis of her article, “Discourses of Anticipatory Futures Among Contemporary Japanese Younger Adults” published in Language and Society, June 2021.
Prof. Celine-Marie Pascale is one of the founding members of our RC25 and the LDS journal. She is a leading scholar in the field of language and society. Her research examines how language and representation are used to create and normalize systemic inequalities. Pascale’s scholarship on the relationship between systems of signification and social/economic inequalities has been acknowledged with national and international awards for uniquely important contributions to the field. She is also a Professor Emerita of the American University in Washington DC.
Dr. Judit Kroo is an Assistant Professor at the Japanese Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies, School of International Letters and Cultures, Arizona State University.
The Award Committee 2023:
The Chair of the Award Committee:
Prof. Erzsebet Barat PhD / @Institute of English and American Studies University of Szeged & Department of Gender Studies Central European University, Vienna, Austria
Committee Members:
– Frida Petersson PhD (Deputy Head of Department of Social Work, Göteborgs Universitet, Sweden
– Stéphanie Casilde PhD (Ronin Institute), Belgium
– Magdalena Lemańczyk PhD, (Department of German Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences)
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 | |
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| “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 | |
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| “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 | |
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| 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).