Language and Social Interaction | Division of National Communication Association

2015 Dissertation Award Nominations

Dissertation of the Year Award for 2015 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 institutional…

2017 NCA Convention

NCA 103rd Annual Convention: Our Legacy, Our Relevance Submission Deadline Dates: Mon, 1/16 2017 12:00 AM – Thu, 3/30 2017 3:00 AM EDT Language and Social Interaction Division NCA 103rd Annual Convention Division Call The Language and Social Interaction (LSI) Division promotes research and teaching on language and discourse processes in social interaction. The LSI…

University of California, Los Angeles

University of California, Los Angeles Department of Anthropology invites applications for a tenure track position in linguistic anthropology at the assistant professor rank. Applicant must have Ph.D. in hand at time of application. Open to all areas of scholarship within linguistic anthropology. Preference will be given to scholarship that attends to the detailed analysis of…

Loughborough University

Loughborough University is seeking to recruit to eight positions in the new Centre for Research in Communication and Culture (CRCC) in the School of Social, Political and Geographical Sciences. The Centre will enhance the defining characteristic of our work at Loughborough: namely, the investigation of a broad spectrum of communication and culture informed by an extensive,…

Syracuse University

The Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies at Syracuse University invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position in the area of language and social interaction/discourse analysis at the level of assistant professor, to begin fall 2016. Application instructions: Syracuse University has an online application process. For more information and to apply visit www.sujobopps.com (JOB#072143). Review of…

2015 Call for Nominations – Vice Chair Elect

The Language and Social Interaction division of National Communication Association is seeking nominations for the role of VICE CHAIR ELECT. This is a 4-year commitment to the division, with different responsibilities in each year. The vice chair-elect supervises the Outstanding Dissertation of the Year award; the vice-chair serves as the conference planner; the chair supervises…

2015 Call for Nominations – Information Officer

The Language and Social Interaction division of National Communication Association is seeking nominations for the role of INFORMATION OFFICER. This is a 2-year commitment to the division and the responsibilities are shared amongst two officers. Responsibilities include taking minutes at the business meeting, managing and updating the LSI website and Facebook page, developing and distributing…

Jessica Robles, Loughborough University

I am a currently a lecturer in the Department of Social Psychology at Loughborough University. I received my PhD from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Since graduating I taught for a couple years at the University of New Hampshire before coming to Seattle. What LSI pieces of writing have inspirational to you as a…

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.