Division Awards | Language and Social Interaction

2016 Outstanding Dissertation

Nadezhda Sotirova (University of Minnesota Morris): “’Of All, I Most Hate Bulgarians’: Situating Oplakvane in Bulgarian Discourse as a Term for Communication Practice”. Nade’s dissertation is an ethnographic study of communication focusing on Bulgarian identity, culture and community. Reviewers were impressed with how the research couples a nuanced study of specific communication practices with a…

2016 Top Student Paper

Amelia Hill, University of California, Los Angeles: “’Suspect’ Identity: The Use of Race in Requests for Police Interventions”

2016 Top Paper Award

Chase Raymond, University of Colorado, Boulder: “The ‘Do’-Construction in English Conversation”

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”

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.