- 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 force”