2015 Awards | Language and Social Interaction

Division of National Communication Association

2015 Outstanding Scholarship

Donal Carbaugh, “Cultures in Conversation” About the book: Donal Carbaugh’s Cultures in Conversation represents the fundamental role of ethnography in understanding social interaction, and the central place of “culture” within our division. It is a foundational work in the area of culture and communication. The combination of ethnography and discourse analysis and its successful attempt…

2015 Outstanding Dissertation

Ingrid Li Soto (UC Santa Barbara) “Social Relations and Institutional Structures and in Modern American Political Campaigns.” Dissertation Chair: Geoffrey Raymond. Reviewers wrote: Soto’s dissertation focuses on the 2008 Presidential Election campaign speeches and provides a fine grained analysis of interaction between the speaker and the audience. It demonstrates how a successful speech depends on…

2015 Top Paper

Karen Tracy (University of Colorado, Boulder), for the paper “Storytelling and Social Change”

2015 Top Student Paper

JhuCin Jhang (UT Austin), “Neither Good nor Bad, Neither New nor Old – Coming Out News Delivery Sequences”