April | 2018 | Language and Social Interaction

2017 Old Chestnut Award

Wayne Beach, “Transitional Regularities for Casual ‘Okay’ Usages”

Emily Hofstetter, “Citizens Getting Help Interactions at the Constituency Office”. Her study provides valuable insight into everyday practices of politics a concern of increasing significance in the field.

2017 Top Student Paper

Carol Hoi Yee Lo (Teachers College, Columbia University), “Wearing Two Hats: Managing Correction and Responding When Facilitating ESL Group Work

2017 Top Paper Award

Edward Reynolds & Mardi Kidwell, “Participation in the Organization of Visual Action: The Case of ‘Noticing’ and ‘Watching’”

2016 Award for outstanding article within last 5 years

Jeffrey Robinson “What ‘What’ Tells Us about How Conversationalists Manage Intersubjectivity”

2016 Outstanding Dissertation

Nadezhda Sotirova (University of Minnesota Morris): “’Of All, I Most Hate Bulgarians’: Situating Oplakvane in Bulgarian Discourse as a Term for Communication Practice”. Nade’s dissertation is an ethnographic study of communication focusing on Bulgarian identity, culture and community. Reviewers were impressed with how the research couples a nuanced study of specific communication practices with a…

2016 Top Student Paper

Amelia Hill, University of California, Los Angeles: “’Suspect’ Identity: The Use of Race in Requests for Police Interventions”

2016 Top Paper Award

Chase Raymond, University of Colorado, Boulder: “The ‘Do’-Construction in English Conversation”

2018 Dissertation Award Nominations

Dissertation of the Year Award for 2018 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…