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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[…]

2017 Old Chestnut Award

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

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[…]

Awards 1982-2006

Recipients of the LSI Dissertation Award (an incomplete list) 2006 Galina Bolden (UCLA): Delayed and incipient actions: The discourse markers “-to” and “so” in Russian[…]

2007 Outstanding Scholarship

Richard Buttny was awarded the Outstanding Scholarship Award for a Classic Work, also known as the “Old Chestnut” award, for his 1993 books entitled, “Social[…]

2009 Outstanding Scholarship

Barnett Pearce & Vernon Cronen was awarded the Old Chestnut Award for their classic work, “Communication, action, and meaning” (1980), which elaborated the basic argument[…]

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.[…]

2013 Outstanding Scholarship

Robert Craig & Karen Tracy for the 1995 article titled “Grounded practical theory: The case of intellectual discussion,” Communication Theory, 5, 248-272.