2014 Awards | Language and Social Interaction

2014 Outstanding Dissertation

Joshua Raclaw, currently an honorary fellow at University of Wisconsin-Madison: Indexing inferables and organizational shifts: ‘No’-prefaces in English conversation. Dissertation chair: Barbara Fox of University of Colorado. Reviewers wrote that: This research employs theories and methods well-grounded in the LSI historical community, but makes strong, clear contributions to that literature as well. The author ably employs complimentary…

2014 Top Student Paper

Chase Wesley Raymond, UCLA, for the paper: Code-switched responses to inquiry.

2014 Top Paper

Danielle Pillet-Shore, University of New Hampshire for the paper: Criticizing another’s child: Regular ways teachers manage evaluating students during parent-teacher conferences.

2014 Outstanding Scholarship

Gene H. Lerner (UCSB, Dept of Sociology) (2013). On the place of hesitating in delicate formulations: A turn-constructional infrastructure for collaborative indiscretion. In J. Sidnell, M. Hayashi & G. Raymond (Eds.), Conversational Repair and Human Understanding. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.