2016 Top Paper Award – Language and Social Interaction

Chase Raymond, University of Colorado, Boulder: “The ‘Do’-Construction in English Conversation”

2024 Call for Awards

Posted: May 3, 2024

Nomination Deadline: June 15, 2024 Dissertation of the Year Award The Language and Social Interaction Division of the National Communication Association will recognize an 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 institutional and everyday interaction, interaction […]

2023 Award Winners

Posted: March 2, 2024

Top Student Paper Award: “ ‘That Big Bad Policeman:’ Police and Civilian Identities Constructed in Dialogue and Narrative Types” by Hannah Fedder Williams, Georgetown University Top Paper Award: “The Interactional Achievement of Speech Community Among Diaspora Basques in the United States” by Drs. Jone L. Brunelle & David Boromisza-Habashi, University of Colorado, Boulder

2024 NCA Call for Papers

Posted: March 2, 2024

The Language and Social Interaction (LSI) Division promotes research and teaching on language and discourse processes in social interaction. The 110th Annual Convention of the National Communication Association (NCA) to be held in New Orleans, LA, November 21-24, 2024, will engage with the theme “Communication for Greater Regard”. This theme invites submissions that “examines the […]