Extended deadline: June 30, 2018

 This award is presented to the author(s) of an article, chapter, or monograph in the area of language and social interaction. Any member of the LSI  Division may nominate a published work; the senior author must be a member of the LSI Division during the year in which the award is made. Selection criteria shall include scholarly merit, contribution to knowledge in language and social interaction, and current impact on the discipline. Studies of an analytical, critical, empirical, philosophical, or theoretical nature that make a contribution to LSI are eligible for consideration. Only actually published works will be considered.

 To submit a nomination for this award, please include a 1-page letter explaining the significance of the work and the impact it has on our field, and (if available) include a PDF copy of the work along with the complete citation. Direct your nominations to LSI Immediate Past Chair, Galina Bolden (gbolden@rutgers.edu). Deadline for submission is June 30, 2018. The award will be presented at the LSI Business Meeting at the 2018 NCA Conference.

Here is a list of some previous recipients of this award:

·      2016 Jeffrey Robinson “What ‘What’ Tells Us about How Conversationalists Manage Intersubjectivity”

·      2014 Gene H. Lerner (UCSB, Dept of Sociology) (2013). On the place of hesitating in delicate formulations: A turn-constructional infrastructure for collaborative indiscretion. In J. Sidnell, M. Hayashi & G. Raymond (Eds.), Conversational Repair and Human Understanding. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

·     2009 Beach, W.A. A natural history of family cancer: Interactional resources for managing illness. NY: Hampton Press, Inc.

·      2008: Kristine Fitch “Cultural Persuadables” published in Communication Theory 13(1): 100-123.

·      2006 Phillip Glenn (2003) Laughter in Interaction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

·      2004 Steve Clayman & John Heritage (2002) “Questioning Presidents: Journalistic deference and adversarialness in the press conferences of U.S. presidents Eisenhower and Reagan,” Journal of Communication, 52, 4, 749-775.

·      2002 Robert Hopper & Curtis LeBaron (1998) “How Gender Creeps into Talk,” Research on Language and Social Interaction, 31, 1, 59-74.

·      1999 Karen Tracy (1997) Colloquium Dilemmas of Academic Discourse, Norwood, NJ: Ablex