Language and Social Interaction | Division of National Communication Association

2025 Award Winners

Top Student Paper Award: “Socializing Self-Management and Survivorhood: Patient-Doctor Positioning and Personal Responsibility in Rare Disease Patient Narratives” by Michael Guarino, Georgetown University Top Paper Award: “Eating with Chopsticks: Coordinated Action and Turn Design” by Todd L. Sandel, University of Macau; Ricardo Moutinho University of Macau; Richard Fitzgerald, University of Macau; Younhee Kim, University of…

2025 Call for Papers

The Language and Social Interaction (LSI) Division promotes research and teaching on discourse and interaction in social context. The 111th Annual Convention of the National Communication Association (NCA) to be held in Rockies/Denver, CO November 20-23, 2025, will engage with the theme “Communication to Elevate”. This theme encourages scholars to “exchange wisdom and knowledge with…

2024 Award Winners

Top Student Paper Award: “Framing and Positioning Research Interviews: An Interactional Sociolinguistic Approach to Understanding Strategies of Neutrality and Rapport” by Hannah Fedder Williams, Georgetown University Top Paper Award: “Categorizing the Self to Stereotype the Other” by Dr. Nadja Tadic, Georgetown University Outstanding Dissertation Award: “Ethnomethodological Analysis of Online Classroom Interaction” by Dr. Shan Huang,…

2024 Call for Awards

Nomination Deadline: June 15, 2024 Dissertation of the Year Award The Language and Social Interaction Division of the National Communication Association will recognize an outstanding doctoral dissertation in the field of Language and Social Interaction. Nominations should reflect the division’s focus on situated language usage and social interaction. Analyses of institutional and everyday interaction, interaction…

2023 Award Winners

Top Student Paper Award: “ ‘That Big Bad Policeman:’ Police and Civilian Identities Constructed in Dialogue and Narrative Types” by Hannah Fedder Williams, Georgetown University Top Paper Award: “The Interactional Achievement of Speech Community Among Diaspora Basques in the United States” by Drs. Jone L. Brunelle & David Boromisza-Habashi, University of Colorado, Boulder

2024 NCA Call for Papers

The Language and Social Interaction (LSI) Division promotes research and teaching on language and discourse processes in social interaction. The 110th Annual Convention of the National Communication Association (NCA) to be held in New Orleans, LA, November 21-24, 2024, will engage with the theme “Communication for Greater Regard”. This theme invites submissions that “examines the…

2023 Call for Award Nominations

The Language and Social Interaction division of NCA is seeking nominations for the division’s Dissertation of the Year Award and Outstanding Publication Award. Please nominate yourself or others. The nomination deadline for BOTH awards is July 26, 2023. See details below and feel free to reach out to the officers if you have any questions….

2021 Outstanding Dissertation Award

Congratulations to: Grace Peters (U South Florida), Communication Skills in Medical Education: A Discourse Analysis of Standardized Patient Practices

2018 Outstanding Dissertation

Alexa Bolaños-Carpio, “Interactions in calls to the 9-1-1 Emergency System in Costa Rica”.

Graduate Programs in Communication with LSI emphasis

Graduate Programs in Communication with LSI emphasis Portland State University, Department of Communication, MA (http://pdx.edu/communication/) Rutgers University, Department of Communication, SC&I, MA, PhD (http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/) San Diego State University, School of Communication, MA (http://communication.sdsu.edu/index.html) San Francisco State University, Communication Studies Department, MA (http://www.sfsu.edu/~comm/) Syracuse University, Communication and Rhetoric Studies, MA (http://vpa.syr.edu/crs) University of Albany, Department of…