2010 Dissertation Award

Leah Sprain (Ph.D., University of Washington) Cultivating Cooperativism: An Ethnography of Communication in Nicaraguan Fair Trade Cooperative Meetings

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2025 Award Winners

Posted: November 22, 2025

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

Posted: March 19, 2025

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

Posted: December 4, 2024

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,…