Wayne Beach, “Transitional Regularities for Casual ‘Okay’ Usages”
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Month: April 2018
2017 Outstanding Dissertation
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.
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2017 Top Student Paper
Carol Hoi Yee Lo (Teachers College, Columbia University), “Wearing Two Hats: Managing Correction and Responding When Facilitating ESL Group Work
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2017 Top Paper Award
Edward Reynolds & Mardi Kidwell, “Participation in the Organization of Visual Action: The Case of ‘Noticing’ and ‘Watching’”
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2016 Award for outstanding article within last 5 years
Jeffrey Robinson “What ‘What’ Tells Us about How Conversationalists Manage
Intersubjectivity”
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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 whole national ethos. The study enriches the field of the ethnography of communication su...
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2016 Top Student Paper
Amelia Hill, University of California, Los Angeles: “’Suspect’ Identity: The Use of Race in Requests for Police Interventions”
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2016 Top Paper Award
Chase Raymond, University of Colorado, Boulder: “The ‘Do’-Construction in English Conversation”
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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 institutional and everyday interaction, in face-to-face and me...
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