The 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 prize is awarded at the annual conference in the year following the publication of the article.
The PALA Prize for the best article by a new comer to the field published in Language and Literature in 2021  is

He Huang , Beijing Normal University, Clause complexing and characterisation: Joyce’s ‘Two Gallants’ revisited. Language and Literature, 30(1), 3–20. 

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​You can find winning articles at the Language and Literature website.
Previous winners of the PALA prize include:
  • 2019 Hazel Price and Jack Wilson: “Relevance theory and metaphor: An analysis of Tom Waits’ ‘Emotional Weather Report’” Language and Literature 28,1: pp.61-81
  • 2018 Eri Shigematsu: Defoe's psychological realism: the effect of directness in indirect consciousness representation categories Language and Literature 2018, 27, 2: pp. 71-85
  • 2017 Davide Castiglione: Difficult Poetry Processing: Reading Times and the Narrativity Hypothesis. Language and Literature 2017, 26, 2: pp. 99-121
  • 2016 Héloïse Vande Wiele: The loss of poetic effects: From indeterminate to conventionalised meaning. Language and Literature 2016, 25, 1: pp. 54-71
  • 2015   Louise Nuttall: Attributing minds to vampires in Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend'. Language and Literature 2015, 24, 1: pp. 23-39
  • 2014   Eric Rundquist: How is Mrs Ramsay thinking? The semantic effects of consciousness presentation categories within free indirect style. Language and Literature 2014, 23, pp159-174
  • 2013   Jane Lugea: Embedded dialogue and dreams: the worlds and accessibility relations of Inception. Language and Literature 2013 22, pp133-153.
  • 2012   Elena Pallarés-García: Narrated perception revisited: The case of Jane Austen’s Emma. Language and Literature 21:2, pp170-188.
  • 2011  Aletta G. Dorst: Personification in discourse: Linguistic forms, conceptual structures and communicative functions, Language and Literature 2011 20:113-135.
  • 2011 Sara Whiteley: Text World Theory, real readers and emotional responses to The Remains of the Day, Language and Literature 2011 20, pp23-42.
  • 2010   Alice Spitz: The music of argument: The portrayal of argument in Ian McEwan's On Chesil Beach Language and Literature 19:2, pp. 197-220.
  • 2009   Chantelle Warner: Speaking from experience: narrative schemas, deixis, and authenticity effects in Verena Stefan's feminist confession Shedding. Language and Literature 18:1, pp. 7-23.
  • 2008   Patricia Canning:"The bodie and the letters both": "blending" the rules of early modern religion. Language and Literature 17:3, pp187-203.
  • 2007   Jennifer Riddle Harding: Evaluative Stance and Counterfactuals. Language and Literature, 16:3, pp263-80.