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…

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ncalsiadmin • November 22, 2025

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,…

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ncalsiadmin • December 4, 2024

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

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2021 Outstanding Dissertation Award

Congratulations to: Grace Peters (U South Florida), Communication Skills in Medical Education: A Discourse Analysis of Standardized Patient Practices

ncalsiadmin • November 8, 2022

2018 Outstanding Dissertation

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

ncalsiadmin • April 26, 2019

2017 Old Chestnut Award

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

ncalsiadmin • April 10, 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.

ncalsiadmin • April 10, 2018

2017 Top Student Paper

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

ncalsiadmin • April 10, 2018

2017 Top Paper Award

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

ncalsiadmin • April 10, 2018

2016 Award for outstanding article within last 5 years

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

ncalsiadmin • April 10, 2018

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