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Chiasmus of the Month Awards

This somewhat irregular monthly award is a sign of our recognition of and deep appreciation for the authors’ contribution to the upholding of decent writing standards in academic literature and to the dissemination of the finest of speech figures. Winners are selected and notified each month by our Chiastic Editor and Editorial Chiasturge. The honorees to date are listed below.

Chiasmus of the Month February 2012

Japan Association for Language Teaching, whose motto is “Learning to Teach, Teaching to Learn”.


Chiasmus of the Month November 2011

Stephanie Harves and Richard S. Kayne, 2012, “Having Need and Needing Have”, in Linguistic Inquiry 43:1.


Chiasmus of the Month August 2011

Aloysius Ngefac, 2011, “Globalising a local language and localising a global language: the case of Kamtok and English in Cameroon”, in English Today 27:1.


Chiasmus of the Month July 2011

Jonathan David Bobaljik, 1992, “Nominally Absolutive is Not Absolutely Nominative”. In The Proceedings of WCCFL 12.


Chiasmus of the Month June 2011

Janet W. D. Dougherty, 1979, “Learning Names for Plants and Plants for Names”. In Anthropological Linguistics 21:6; 298-315.


Chiasmus of the Month May 2011

David M. T. Arnold, 2011, “On the Origin of Myths and Myths of Origin: How views on the origins of languages can be more significant than genetic ethnicity in forming group identity”.

Paper presented at Undergraduate Linguistics Association of Britain 2011, 25-27 March 2011, Edinburgh, UK.


Chiasmus of the Month March 2011

Elmar Schafroth, «Crisi nelle linguelingue in crisi»

in: Elmar Schafroth/Christine Schwarzer/Domenico Conte (Hg.), Krise als Chance aus historischer und aktueller Perspektive/Crisi e possibilità: prospettive storiche e attuali, Oberhausen (Athena) 2010, 145-177.


Chiasmus of the Month February 2011

Joseph Greenberg (ed.), 1963, Universals of Language. The Hague: Mouton

Joseph Greenberg, 1966, Language Universals, Cambridge: MIT Press.


Chiasmus of the Month January 2011

Federico Gobbo, 2009, Fondamenti di Interlinguistica ed Esperantologia: Pianificazione linguistica e lingue pianificate, Milano: Raffaello Cortina editore.


Chiasmus of the Month December 2010

Thomas J. Creswell, 1975, Usage in dictionaries and dictionaries of usage, University of Alabama Press.


Chiasmus of the Month November 2010

Denise E. Murray (ed.) 2008, Planning Change, Changing Plans. Innovations in Second Language Teaching, University of Michigan Press.


Chiasmus of the Month September 2010

E. Adelaide Hahn, 1941, “Quintilian on Greek letters lacking in Latin and Latin letters lacking in Greek (12.10.27-29)”. In Language 17 (1); 24-32.


Chiasmus of the Month July 2010

Pierre-Jean Rousselot,1891, Les modifications phonétiques du langage étudiées dans le patois d’une famille de Cellefrouin (Charente). Doctoral Dissertation, University of Paris (p.26).

“Pour l, la langue s’appuie par la pointe sur le palais et vibre par les bords. Pour r, elle s’appuie par les bords et vibre par la pointe.”


Chiasmus of the Month June 2010

Wolfgang Teubert, 2010, “Society presupposes language, and language presupposes society”, in Meaning, Discourse and Society, Cambridge University Press.


Chiasmus of the Month February 2010

Gordon Wells, 2009, The Meaning Makers: Learning to Talk and Talking to Learn, Multilingual Matters.


Chiasmus of the Month December 2009

Bruce Fraser and Ken Turner (eds.), 2009, Language in Life, and a Life in Language: Jacob Mey, A Festschrift, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.


Chiasmus of the Month November 2009

Allison Beeby, Patricia Rodríguez Inés and Pilar Sánchez-Gijón (eds.), 2009, Corpus Use and Translating: Corpus use for learning to translate and learning corpus use to translate, John Benjamins.