Abstract
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 winner of the PALA prize for 2011 is Alice Spitz, for her article entitled “The music of argument: The portrayal of argument in Ian McEwan’s On Chesil Beach” (Volume 19 Number 2, pp. 197-220) (online here - http://lal.sagepub.com/content/19/2/197.abstract).
The winner of the PALA prize for 2012 will be announced at the forthcoming PALA conference in Malta, July 2012 http://www.um.edu.mt/events/pala2012/callforpapers