Language and Social Interaction | Division of National Communication Association

University of Memphis

Department of Communication is seeking applications for Department Chair who will be responsible for leading the department in strategic planning and curriculum development at the undergraduate and graduate levels, recruitment, external funding efforts, community engagement, supervising and evaluating faculty and staff, and stewarding off-site campus locations, including online programming. Applications are to be submitted online…

Purchase College

The Department of Liberal Studies & Continuing Education is hiring a Communication Program Coordinator & Assistant Professor Duties and Responsibilities: Reporting to the Director of Academic Programs, the Communication Program Coordinator provides administrative and student support for all Communications majors. This position is responsible for providing information and advising to students, interacting with numerous entities…

Rutgers University

The Department of Communication is hiring two open rank positions, one in health and one in technology. LSI scholars are welcome to apply. Communication and Technology — looking for innovative scholars investigating communication topics and challenges in areas such as: • Digital inequalities in urban contexts • Technological innovations in health and wellness • Privacy,…

University of California, Santa Barbara

The Department of Sociology invites applications for a position in Conversation Analysis at the rank of Assistant Professor. The ideal candidate will have a PhD in Sociology (or related field), an active research agenda, a strong commitment to quality teaching, and a substantive research agenda that complements one or more of the Department’s core areas…

15th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA)

July 16-21, 2017 Belfast, Ireland Submission deadline for panel proposals: June 1, 2016 Submission deadline for lectures, posters: October 15, 2016 For more info: http://ipra.ua.ac.be/

6th Annual Language and Social Interaction Working Group (LANSI)

October 7-8, 2016 Teachers College Columbia University, New York, New York Submission deadline: May 31, 2016 For more info: www.tc.edu/lansi

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”