Language and Social Interaction | Division of National Communication Association

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”

2018 Dissertation Award Nominations

Dissertation of the Year Award for 2018 Language and Social Interaction Division of NCA The Language and Social Interaction Division of the National Communication Association (http://www.nca-lsi.org/) will recognize the outstanding doctoral dissertation in the field of Language and Social Interaction. Nominations should reflect the division’s focus on situated language usage and social interaction. Analyses of both…

2018 NCA Convention

NCA 104th Annual Convention Nov 8-11, 2018 Salt Lake City, UT Submission Deadline Dates: Mon, 1/15 2018 12:00 AM – Thu, 3/29 2018 3:00 AM EDT Language and Social Interaction Division NCA 104th Annual Convention Division Call The Language and Social Interaction (LSI) Division promotes research and teaching on language and discourse processes in social interaction. The…

2017 Dissertation of the Year Award

Dissertation of the Year Award for 2017—nomination deadline, July 15, 2017 The Language and Social Interaction Division of the National Communication Association (http://www.nca-lsi.org/) will recognize the outstanding doctoral dissertation in the field of Language and Social Interaction. Nominations should reflect the division’s focus on situated language usage and social interaction. Analyses of both institutional and everyday interaction, in face-to-face…

2016 Dissertation of the Year Award

Dissertation of the Year Award for 2016 Language and Social Interaction Division of NCA The Language and Social Interaction Division of the National Communication Association (http://www.nca-lsi.org/) will recognize the outstanding doctoral dissertation in the field of Language and Social Interaction. Nominations should reflect the division’s focus on situated language usage and social interaction. Analyses of both…

Nicolas Bencherki, University at Albany, State University of New York

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University at Albany, State University of New York. After completing a joint PhD in Communication at the Université de Montréal and in Sociology of Action at Sciences Po Paris, I spent time as a postdoctoral fellow, first at the Center for the Sociology…

2016 Outstanding Publication Award for LSI Scholarship Within 5 years (a.k.a., “The Recent Scholarship Award”

This award is presented to the author(s) of an article, chapter, or monograph in the area of language and social interaction published in a recognized scholarly journal, collection of scholarly papers, or series of scholarly monographs. Any member of the LSI Division may nominate a published work; the senior author must be a member of…

CFP: New Horizons in the Ethnography of Communication Conference

June 6-8, 2017 Riverdale, New York Submissions due January 3, 2017 The Ethnography of Communication (EC) is thriving in its 6th decade of research with practical applications to pressing social issues worldwide. Although there are a number of notable EC publications, the fall of 2017 will mark the 20th anniversary of the initial development and…