Back in 2015, Maurice Nevile tracked down and listed every single article published in ROLSI between 1987 and 2014. That was an enormous feat of scholarship, and now he’s updated the catalogue.

Maurice’s 2023 revised version of the bibliography presents, in chronological order, all items published in the journal ROLSI, from 1987 to 2022 (excluding editor comments).

The list makes it easier to view the journal’s contents at a glance, or to track and find specific items, authors, analytic interests and phenomena, settings and situations, or data languages, etc. The list begins in 1987, when the journal changed its name and orientation, after starting in 1969 as Papers in Linguistics.

Among the first articles in 1987 are some which would now be a bit unusual (but very intriguing, like Hillard Kaplan on “Human communication and contemporary evolutionary theory”) and some which would fit right into the current issue (for example, Jo‐Anne Levy on “Contextualizing conversation analysis of a dance company”). Early classics include Steven E. Clayman & Jack Whalen “When the medium becomes the message: The case of the Rather‐Bush encounter” in 1988, and Marjorie Harness Goodwin “Retellings, pretellings and hypothetical stories”, 1990. Some early contributors are no longer with us (Robert Hopper, Rom Harré, John Wilson…) but, happily, many still are, and still publishing in the journal, reviewing for it, or both (Steven Clayman, Anita Pomerantz, John Heritage, Candy Goodwin, Wayne Beach, Robert Sanders, among many others).

It’s an invaluable way of finding gems or just browsing; much easier than back-and-forth searching on the T&F website (though that’s the quickest way to get to the current issue).

You can scroll through and download Maurice’s new bibliography, with the years 2015-2022, below, or see his website for a complete list of his publications (including a terrific collection of his haiku).