Language and Social Interaction | Division of National Communication Association

2008 Top Paper

Danielle Pillet-Shore was awarded Top Paper and Top Debut Paper for her paper entitled “Making way and making sense for arrivers: Pre-present parties’ previous activity formulations”.

2008 Dissertation Award

Estafania Guimares (PhD, University of York, UK) was awarded the LSI Dissertation Award for her dissertation entitled, “Talking about violence: Women reporting abuse in Brazil”.

Barnett Pearce & Vernon Cronen was awarded the Old Chestnut Award for their classic work, “Communication, action, and meaning” (1980), which elaborated the basic argument for the Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM). This important scholarship was ground breaking because it helped to open a space for LSI work because it offered a way to understanding…

2009 Top Four Panel

Laura O’Hara (Ball State University), Carolyn Shue (Ball State University), James McKenzie (Ball State University), David Marini (Ball State University),Jennifer Flanagan (Ball Memorial Hospital Family Medicine Clinic), Linda Daniel (BMH Family Medicine Residency Program), “A simple demographic question: A discursive negotiation of face when asking the ‘race question’” H. Stephanie Kim (University of California, Los…

2009 Top Paper

Danielle Pillet-Shore (PhD, UCLA), Coming Together: Creating and Maintaining Social Relationships through the Openings of Face-to-Face Interactions

2009 Dissertation Award

Danielle Pillet-Shore (PhD, UCLA), Coming Together: Creating and Maintaining Social Relationships through the Openings of Face-to-Face Interactions

2010 Outstanding Scholarship

Wayne A. Beach for the 2009 book titled A natural history of family cancer: Interactional resolutions to medical problems, Hampton Press.

2010 Top Four Panel

Seung-Hee Lee, Yonsei University, “Responding at a Higher Level” Jessica Robles (Top Student Paper), University of Colorado, Boulder, “The accomplishment of intersubjectivity: symbolic resources for other-oriented interaction” François Cooren and Frederik Matte, University of Montreal, “For a constitutive pragmatics: Obama, Medecins sans frontiers and the measuring stick” David Boromisza-Habashi, University of Colorado, Boulder, “Norms, conflicts, discursive…

2010 Top Paper

Seung-Hee Lee, Yonsei University, “Responding at a Higher Level”

2010 Dissertation Award

Leah Sprain (Ph.D., University of Washington) Cultivating Cooperativism: An Ethnography of Communication in Nicaraguan Fair Trade Cooperative Meetings