Book Award

2024

The American Association for Applied Linguistics Book Award recognizes outstanding work in the field of applied linguistics. In bestowing this award, the association honors high-quality books that make an exceptional contribution to the field as a whole or to a specific area of specialization. The Book Award is given biennially, alternating every other year with the First Book Award.

Nominations for the 2024 Award will open in March, 2023.

Recipients

2022

		"The Power of Narrative: Climate Skepticism and the Deconstruction of Science" Authors: Raul Lejano, New York University & Shondel Nero, New York University Publisher: Oxford University Press

Finalist:		"The Dynamics of Dementia Communication" Author: Alison Wray Publisher: Oxford University Press

2020

		"The Routledge Handbook of Migration and Language" Edited By: Suresh Canagarajah, Pennsylvania State University Publisher: Routledge/Taylor and Francis

Finalists:		"Second Language Pragmatics" Authors: Jonathan Culpeper, Lancaster University; Alison Mackey, Georgetown University; and Naoko Taguchi, Northern Arizona University Publisher: Routledge

		Educating Refugee-background Students: Critical Issues and Dynamic Contexts Authors: Shawna Shapiro, Middlebury College; Raichle Farrelly, Saint Michael’s College; and Mary Jane Curry, University of Rochester Publisher: Multilingual Matters

		Scripts of Servitude: Language, Labor Migration and Transnational Domestic Work Author: Beatriz P. Lorente, University of Bern Publisher: Multilingual Matters

2018

Edited Book:		"Language Policy and Political Economy" Edited by: Thomas Ricento Publisher: Oxford University Press

No Finalists

Monograph:

		"The Invention of Monolingualism" Author: David Gramling Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Finalists:

		"Emotion and Discourse in L2 Narrative Research" Author: Matthew T. Prior Publisher: Multilingual Matters

		"Metrolingualism" Author: Alastair Pennycook, Emi Otsuji Publisher: Routledge

		"Usage-Based Approaches to Language Acquisition Processing" Author: Nick C. Ellis, Ute Römer, Matthew Brook O'Donnell, Mary J. Schleppegrell Publisher: Wiley

2016

		"Translingual Practice: Global Englishes and Cosmopolitan Relations" Author: Suresh Canagarajah, Professor at The Pennsylvania State University Publisher: Routledge

Finalists:
		"The Language of Murder Cases: Intentionality, Predisposition, and Voluntariness" Author: Roger W. Shuy Publisher: Oxford University Press

		"Second Language Learning in the Early School Years: Trends and Contexts" Author: Victoria A. Murphy Publisher: Oxford University Press