Awards | Language and Social Interaction

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…

2024 Award Winners

Top Student Paper Award: “Framing and Positioning Research Interviews: An Interactional Sociolinguistic Approach to Understanding Strategies of Neutrality and Rapport” by Hannah Fedder Williams, Georgetown University Top Paper Award: “Categorizing the Self to Stereotype the Other” by Dr. Nadja Tadic, Georgetown University Outstanding Dissertation Award: “Ethnomethodological Analysis of Online Classroom Interaction” by Dr. Shan Huang,…

2024 Call for Awards

Nomination Deadline: June 15, 2024 Dissertation of the Year Award The Language and Social Interaction Division of the National Communication Association will recognize an 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 institutional and everyday interaction, interaction…

2023 Award Winners

Top Student Paper Award: “ ‘That Big Bad Policeman:’ Police and Civilian Identities Constructed in Dialogue and Narrative Types” by Hannah Fedder Williams, Georgetown University Top Paper Award: “The Interactional Achievement of Speech Community Among Diaspora Basques in the United States” by Drs. Jone L. Brunelle & David Boromisza-Habashi, University of Colorado, Boulder

2023 Call for Award Nominations

The Language and Social Interaction division of NCA is seeking nominations for the division’s Dissertation of the Year Award and Outstanding Publication Award. Please nominate yourself or others. The nomination deadline for BOTH awards is July 26, 2023. See details below and feel free to reach out to the officers if you have any questions….

2018 Outstanding Dissertation

Alexa Bolaños-Carpio, “Interactions in calls to the 9-1-1 Emergency System in Costa Rica”.

Call for nominations: The Recent Scholarship Award

Call for nominations: 2018 Outstanding Publication Award for LSI Scholarship Within 5 years (a.k.a., “The Recent Scholarship Award”) Extended deadline: June 30, 2018 This award is presented to the author(s) of an article, chapter, or monograph in the area of language and social interaction. Any member of the LSI Division may nominate a published work;…

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…

2017 Dissertation of the Year Award

Dissertation of the Year Award for 2017—nomination deadline, July 15, 2017 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…

2016 Dissertation of the Year Award

Dissertation of the Year Award for 2016 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…