Announcements: JLSP Awards, Other Honors, and Next ICLASP18 Conference in Tallinn

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Background During its history, JLSP has inaugurated three Awards, all presented biennially at International Conferences on Language & Social Psychology (ICLASP) and the 2022 Awards (and other honors) are announced below. The original announcements and commendations were presented via ZOOM at the ICLASP17 Conference Business Meeting, Hong Kong, June 25, 2022. We take this opportunity here of celebrating and congratulating the Awardees’ achievements. It took over 30 years before we had the first one announced in 2008 at ICLASP11. This was the Best Paper Award for the most outstanding article in the prior two years and this practice has continued at ICLASPs ever since. Another award was inaugurated in 2020, and it was called the “Jake Harwood JLSP Outstanding Book Award” in recognition of the incumbent’s 20 years of stellar service and utter commitment to the critical appreciation of books in our sub-discipline and beyond, coaxing excellent reviews from scholars across disciplinary backgrounds. For both Awards, I am indebted to the International Association of Language and Social Psychology (IALSP) and its Presidents for establishing subcommittees – and my sincere gratitude and indebtedness to its members and Chairs – who generously expend their time, energies and expertise in reviewing candidates for these Awards. A special thanks on this occasion to Maggie Pitts who energetically chaired BOTH of these Award subcommittees and vigorously presented them at ICLASP17 with flair. Now thanks to a suggestion from a wise sage who, years ago, said, “It’s a pity there’s no Award around for outstanding Reviewer, given the toil and investment that goes into them!” Indeed, at that time, I was not aware of language or communication journals making such Awards and so, the Outstanding JLSP Reviewer Award – was inaugurated in 2014.