• Readings in Language Studies Volume Series
• Course and Practice-Based Series
• Emergent Scholars Volume Series

ISLS has established three publications initiatives as part of its effort to support and strengthen the field of language studies. The mission of ISLS is to sustain:

…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.

The Readings in Language Studies Volume Series publishes writings featuring a range of stylistic (essay, oral history, artistic-expressive, and technical) and research approaches to language studies. The series will include both singularly-topical and general volumes. Drawing from open calls for contributions and ISLS conference proceedings, the volume series will be useful to a wide variety of scholarly disciplines, classroom and research contexts, and international fora.

In Development: The Language Studies Course and Practice-Based Series publishes texts that will be used for teaching purposes in the area of language studies. Candidate books, at the graduate or undergraduate level, should have a well-defined target audience, a focus on emergent and rapidly developing areas of interest and/or underrepresented areas of the professional knowledge base, and the potential to impact future stewards, leaders, and scholars in the field. Book proposals must include five collegial letters of support only one of which may come from the first author’s institution.

In Development: The Emergent Scholars in Language Studies Volume Series publishes the work of authors engaged in advanced graduate studies and newly minted graduates of doctoral programs.  Contributions include, but are not limited to, comprehensive literature reviews, theoretical framing of issues and problems, original research, and reports of completed dissertations.  First author status is reserved for the graduate student; an advising professor must be recognized within the by-line of the contribution and may be listed as second author.

The International Society for Language Studies (ISLS) was created in 2002 by scholars united in their goal to have a forum encouraging and disseminating post-positivistic research in languages matters, broadly conceived. Prior to the founding of ISLS such research was presented in venues primarily designed for applied linguistics, educational studies, language-specific concerns, literary criticism, anthropology, sociology, history, or similar disciplines. ISLS seeks to bring together scholars from research disciplines whose research has been on issues of language studies. Visit ISLS on the web at www.isls-inc.org for more information about its publications initiative, conferences, journal, and membership benefits.  E-mail inquiries to publications@isls-inc.org