International Society for Historical Lexicography and Lexicology
ISHLL
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About Us
International Society for Historical Lexicography and Lexicology
ISHLL is a society of scholars working on the world history of dictionaries, the making of all types of dictionaries across languages and cultures, critical lexicography, and historical lexicology. It was established as a result of the first International Conference on Historical Lexicography and Lexicology (ICHLL 1), which was organized by Julie Coleman and took place in Leicester, England in 2002.
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The Society sponsors the International Conference for Historical Lexicography and Lexicology (ICHLL), which for the past several years has taken place annually. Each conference is organized and conducted autonomously on a volunteer basis by members and their hosting institutions. ISHLL depends on its members to submit proposals to host conferences, and to attend these conferences, in order to sustain the scholarly work of our society. Many of our conferences result in a published peer reviewed volume of expanded versions of selected papers. You will find more information about our conferences and publications on this website.
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From our founding in 2002, besides creating a supportive space for the sharing of historical and source-based research, we have been most interested in welcoming scholars who represent a diverse set of linguistic and geographic communities. You can join ISHLL for free; there are no membership dues. It simply requires that you sign onto the ISHLL listserv, which we use to keep members informed of upcoming conferences and other announcements.
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Board
International Society for Historical Lexicography and Lexicology
Board
Presiding Officer
Fredric Dolezal
University of Georgia, USA
Fredric Dolezal has research interests in literary lexicography and history of semantics and philosophical grammars, especially as these linguistically-based studies raise questions concerning the dictionary as text and the literariness of literary theory; the preceding is informed largely by his work on constructed languages and lexicons of the 17th century, classification systems, and other methods of transmitting and representing concepts across space and time.
Advisory Board
Chiara Benati – Università di Genova
Charlotte Brewer – Hertford College, Oxford
Rita Calabrese – Università degli Studi di Salerno
Esperança Cardeira – Universidade de Lisboa
John Considine – University of Alberta
Rute Costa – Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
Antonette Healey – University of Toronto
Giovanni Iamartino – Università Statale di Milano
Rossella Latorraca – Università degli Studi di Salerno
Francisco J. Martín Arista – Universidad de La Rioja
Rod McConchie – Helsingin Yliopisto
Heather Pagan – University of Westminster
Alicia Rodríguez Álvarez – Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Ana Salgado – Academia das Ciências de Lisboa
Louise Sylvester – University of Westminster
Hans Van de Velde – Universiteit Utrecht
Alina Villalva – Universidade de Lisboa
Geoffrey Williams – Université Bretagne Sud
