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Language and Literature

Language and Literature is the journal of the Poetics and Linguistics Association, and is published by Sage. Language and Literature is now indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index® (Impact Factor pending). Standard membership of PALA costs £50 and includes all the PALA benefits plus the year's subscription to Language and Literature. For more details see Sage's latest home page for the journal: http://lal.sagepub.com/.

There is a list of books available for review in Language and Literature.

About the Journal

Language and Literature is an international journal, reflecting the wide interest of the Poetics and Linguistics Association. Incorporating the latest research and development in stylistics and related aspects of language and literary study, Language and Literature explores the connection between stylistics, critical theory, linguistics, literary criticism and their pedagogical applications. This breadth of coverage ensures that the reader has a comprehensive view of all the necessary work relevant to stylistics.

The journal is published four times a year in February, May, August and November by SAGE.

Call for Papers for special issue on stylistics and pedagogical research

Language and Literature Volume 20, no. 3 will be a special issue on the topic of 'Stylistics and Pedagogical Research'. The deadline for short proposals is Friday, 24 September, 2010. See the full details in the call for papers.

PALA Prize

Since 1996 the Poetics and Linguistics Association has awarded a prize for the best article published in the journal by a newcomer to the field. The prize currently consists of a subscription to Language and Literature, membership of PALA for one year, and a £250 cash prize from Sage. The judges are the editors of the journal.

The winner of the 2010 prize is Chantelle Warner for 'Speaking from experience: narrative schemas, deixis, and authenticity effects in Verena Stefan's feminist confession Shedding', Language and Literature, February 2009; vol. 18, 1: pp. 7-23. (see the abstract here).

The winner for the best article published in 2008 was Patricia Canning, for her article entitled "The bodie and the letters both": "blending" the rules of early modern religion, (Volume 17, no.3, 187-203).

The winner for the best article published in 2007 was Jennifer Riddle Harding, for her article entitled ‘Evaluative Stance and Counterfactuals in Language and Literature’ (Volume 16, no.3, 263-80).