Language and Social Interaction

Division of National Communication Association

2011 Outstanding Scholarship

Emanuel A. Schegloff for the 1974 article titled “A simplest systematics for the organization of turn-taking for conversation,” by H. Sacks, E.A. Schegloff, and G. Jefferson, Language, 50, pp. 696-735

2011 Top Debut Paper

Laila Hualpa, University of California, Los Angeles, “President Obama’s embodied stance displays while monitoring questions in presidential news conferences”

2011 Top Three Panel

Hye Ri Stephanie Kim, University of California, Los Angeles, “Turn design and action projection in comparative perspective” Danielle Pillet-Shore, University of New Hampshire, “The problems with praise in parent-teacher conferences” Julien C. Mirivel, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, “Communicating to enrich others: How therapists analyze clients’ talk”

2011 Top Paper

Hye Ri Stephanie Kim, University of California, Los Angeles, “Turn design and action projection in comparative perspective”.

2011 Dissertation Award

Satomi Kuroshima (Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles) Ordering sushi: The intersection of linguistic form, culture and social setting in the United Sates and Japan.