May | 2016 | Language and Social Interaction

15th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA)

July 16-21, 2017 Belfast, Ireland Submission deadline for panel proposals: June 1, 2016 Submission deadline for lectures, posters: October 15, 2016 For more info: http://ipra.ua.ac.be/

6th Annual Language and Social Interaction Working Group (LANSI)

October 7-8, 2016 Teachers College Columbia University, New York, New York Submission deadline: May 31, 2016 For more info: www.tc.edu/lansi

2015 Outstanding Scholarship

Donal Carbaugh, “Cultures in Conversation” About the book: Donal Carbaugh’s Cultures in Conversation represents the fundamental role of ethnography in understanding social interaction, and the central place of “culture” within our division. It is a foundational work in the area of culture and communication. The combination of ethnography and discourse analysis and its successful attempt…

2015 Outstanding Dissertation

Ingrid Li Soto (UC Santa Barbara) “Social Relations and Institutional Structures and in Modern American Political Campaigns.” Dissertation Chair: Geoffrey Raymond. Reviewers wrote: Soto’s dissertation focuses on the 2008 Presidential Election campaign speeches and provides a fine grained analysis of interaction between the speaker and the audience. It demonstrates how a successful speech depends on…

2015 Top Paper

Karen Tracy (University of Colorado, Boulder), for the paper “Storytelling and Social Change”

2015 Top Student Paper

JhuCin Jhang (UT Austin), “Neither Good nor Bad, Neither New nor Old – Coming Out News Delivery Sequences”

2015 Dissertation Award Nominations

Dissertation of the Year Award for 2015 Language and Social Interaction Division of NCA The Language and Social Interaction Division of the National Communication Association (http://www.nca-lsi.org/) will recognize the 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 both institutional…

2017 NCA Convention

NCA 103rd Annual Convention: Our Legacy, Our Relevance Submission Deadline Dates: Mon, 1/16 2017 12:00 AM – Thu, 3/30 2017 3:00 AM EDT Language and Social Interaction Division NCA 103rd Annual Convention Division Call The Language and Social Interaction (LSI) Division promotes research and teaching on language and discourse processes in social interaction. The LSI…