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 Macau; and Raquel Abi-Samara, University of Macau

Outstanding Dissertation Award:

“Interaction With and About Conversational User Interfaces: An Interactional Sociolinguistic Approach” by Dr. Jungyoon Koh, Georgetown University

Award for Scholarship Older than Five Years:

Thomas Martine, Boris Brummans, and Francois Cooren (2020) “At the Junction Between Subsistence and Reference: A Pragmatist Take on Interaction Analysis.” Journal of Communication 70(1), 90–113.

ncalsiadmin • November 22, 2025


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