NCA’s 112th Annual Convention | Discourse & SOcial Interaction
Division Program
See you in New Orleans from Nov. 19 – 22, 2026
Session Chair: Stephen DiDomenico, West Chester University
Respondent: David Boromisza-Habashi, Associate Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder
“Really needed this coco no-no right now”: How a fictional alcoholic beverage travels through time and space in Star Trek podcast discourse
Cynthia Gordon, Associate Professor, Georgetown University
The Movement of “Communication Skills” from Simulation to Practice
Grace Ellen Peters, Assistant Professor of Communication, Colorado Christian University
“I want to visit Guru Rinpoche’s pure realm”: The movement of religious myth into everyday narrative through chronotopes
Yitong Ma, University of Colorado, Boulder
Online Play Families: Fictive Kinship Moving into Online Social Contexts
Chandler Grays
Session Chair: David Boromisza-Habashi, Associate Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder
Anti-racism Expression on Chinese Social Media: a Multimodal Discourse Analysis on Douyin Platform
Li Tong, Fudan University ; Jun Xiao, School of Journalism and Communication, Wuhan University
From Questioning to Teaching: Epistemic Authority and the Interactional Management of Vaccine Hesitancy
Wan Wei, Assistant Professor, Pennsylvania State University, Abington ; Anoushka Guha, Central Bucks High School South
From Industry Critics to Embodied Experts: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Plastic Surgeons’ Medical Authority on Douyin
yuan chai
TikToks That Make The Girlies Feel Safe: An Interactional Sociolinguistics Analysis
Macky Grimm, Georgetown University
“I’m a wife, I’m a bonus mom, I’m a principal, and I’m a survivor”: Black Women’s Cancer Narratives as Identity and Family Work
Sydney Frigerio, University of Colorado, Boulder ; Winifred Sekyibea Abakah, University of Colorado, Boulder
Session Chair: Hanwool Choe, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Hong Kong
Moving forward: LSI approaches in the age of emerging technologies and AI
Mervenur Cetin, University of Colorado, Boulder
Membership categorization, epistemic authority, and media accounts of clinical AI
Christopher J. Koenig, Professor, San Francisco State University
Playback interviews as a site of sensemaking about AI
Jungyoon Koh
“Like CoComelon for adults”: Kitchen advice in the age of AI
Alla Tovares, Howard University
Narrative fabrication: Analyzing a sexual assault narrative by a virtual human
Hanwool Choe, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Hong Kong
Session Chair: Bryanna Hebenstreit, University at Albany, SUNY
Respondent: Christopher J. Koenig, Professor, San Francisco State University
Easy Way Out: Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying in the Context of Human Rights Theorization
Grayson Arnold, Saint Louis University
Maximortem Rhetoric: Direct Death Discourse
Laura Bruns, Assistant Professor, Florida Atlantic University
Two people, one grave?: Speculation as an interactional resource for teasing
Bryanna Hebenstreit, University at Albany, SUNY
“Don’t worry about Hurting Him”: Directive practices in near-fatal 911 CPR emergency medical calls.
Heidi Kevoe-Feldman, Northeastern University
Tweeting Through the Grief: How Social Media Honors André Leon Talley
Antonio Mercurius, Howard University
Session Chair: Christopher J. Koenig, Professor, San Francisco State University
Race talk in institutional settings: A language and social interaction perspective
Natasha Shrikant, Associate Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder ; Francesca A. Williamson, Assistant Professor
“Let’s All Share Our Testimonies”: White Evangelical Group Formation and a Shared Speech Code
Mark Ward Sr., Texas A&M University-Victoria
Expertise and interactional hybridity in news show talk raising awareness of rare diseases
Michael Guarino, Georgetown University
Uncovering language ideologies in Rimay (speech) and Yachay (knowledge): Digital intercultural possibilities for indigenous language media
Sandra Bustamante ; Anthony Spencer, Associate Professor/Graduate Program Director, Grand Valley State University ; Roxana Bustamante Parodi, Independent Researcher
“It’s Supposed to be a Conversation”: Genre Expectations and IEP Meetings
Kristella Montiegel, University of Colorado, Boulder
Session Chair: Charlotte Jones, Professor, Carroll College
Author(s)/Presenters:
Christopher J. Koenig, Professor, San Francisco State University
Sylvia Sierra, Associate Professor, Syracuse University
Leah Wingard, Professor, San Francisco State University
Session Chair: Stephen DiDomenico, West Chester University
One Resource for Creative Resonance: Switching Modalities for Misalignment
Gonen Dori Hacohen, Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst ; Aubrey Armbruster, Student, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
“I invented Bitcoin”: Trivia as an Interactional Arena
Liran Peretz ; Joohee Kim, University of Massachusetts, Amherst ; Gonen Dori Hacohen, Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
“ChatGPT Therapy” and Anthropomorphism: Membership Categorization of Human and Non-human
Mervenur Cetin, University of Colorado, Boulder
Respecifying cross-cultural adaptation to center the migrant experience: An analysis of interactional troubles and epistemics among African refugee migrants
Natasha Shrikant, Associate Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder ; Winifred Sekyibea Abakah, University of Colorado, Boulder
How does Empathic Self-Disclosure shape interaction in Dignity Therapy interviews?
Christopher J. Koenig, Professor, San Francisco State University ; Emily L. Mroz, PhD, Assistant Professor, Emory University ; Susan Bluck, PhD, Professor, University of Florida ; Diana Wilkie, PhD, Professor, University of Florida ; Carma Bylund, PhD, FACH, Professor, University of Florida
Author(s)/Presenters:
Sylvia Sierra, Associate Professor, Syracuse University
Stephen DiDomenico, West Chester University
Leah Wingard, Professor, San Francisco State University
Wan Wei, Assistant Professor, Pennsylvania State University, Abington
Session Chair: Cynthia Gordon, Associate Professor, Georgetown University
Language and Social Interaction 2.0: A Review to extend LSI methods to social digital interactions
Leah Wingard, Professor, San Francisco State University
Accomplishing “arrival” without a landmark: the sequential organization of digital self-location in mobile orienteering
Youyou Li, University at Albany, SUNY
Scaffolding Talk in Digital Shared Book Reading: Affordance-Responsive Interaction and Child Learning Outcomes in Middle Childhood (Ages 6–12)
Noah ANDREA Nanwamba, STUDENT, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
The Gravity of Levity : Evaluating Satirical Responses to Linguistic Command through Likes, Replies, and Threaded Interaction on YouTube
Minji Kim, University of Mississippi