The Language and Social Interaction division of NCA is seeking nominations for the division’s Dissertation of the Year Award and Outstanding Publication Award. Please nominate yourself or others. The nomination deadline for BOTH awards is July 26, 2023. See details below and feel free to reach out to the officers if you have any questions.
2023 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 in face-to-face and mediated contexts, and interaction within and across diverse linguistic and cultural groups are welcome. Previous awards have gone to studies in discourse and conversation analysis, speech act theory, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, ethnomethodology, and the ethnography of communication. To be eligible for the award, a dissertation must have been officially completed (i.e., filed and defended) during 2022.
Nominations should be made by the dissertation advisor or a member of the Language and Social Interaction Division of NCA. Please email nominations with the following materials:
1. A nomination letter outlining the justification for the award (may be submitted under separate cover).
2. A 500-word (maximum) abstract of the dissertation.
3. A PDF copy of the full dissertation.
Send all nomination materials to the Vice Chair Elect, Leah Wingard <wingard@sfsu.edu> Please include “NCA LSI Dissertation Award” in the subject line of your email.
The award will be presented at NCA’s Language and Social Interaction Division Virtual Business Meeting in November 2023. For more information about our division and past award recipients, please refer to our website.
2023 Outstanding Publication Award for LSI Scholarship Older than 5 Years (a.k.a., “The Old Chestnut Award”)
This award is presented to the author(s) of an article, chapter, or monograph in the area of language and social interaction published in a recognized scholarly journal, collection of scholarly papers, or series of scholarly monographs. 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 impact on the discipline. Studies of an analytical, critical, empirical, philosophical, or theoretical nature are eligible for consideration. Only 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 had on LSI scholarship, and (if available) include a PDF copy of the work along with the complete citation. Direct submissions to LSI Immediate Past Chairs, Michelle Scollo (michelle.scollo@mountsaintvincent.edu) and Brion van Over (BvanOver@manchestercc.edu). Award to be presented at the LSI Business Meeting of the 2023 NCA Conference.
Previous recipients (awarded biennially)
2021 Tamar Katriel and Gerry Philipsen for “‘What we need is communication’: ‘Communication’ as a cultural category in some American speech,” published in Communication Monographs, 48(4), 301-317.
2019 Francis Cooren for the 2015 book Organizational Discourse: Communication and Constitution (Wiley).
2017 Wayne Beach, for the 1993 article “Transitional Regularities for Casual ‘Okay’ Usages” Transitional regularities for ‘casual’ “Okay” usages,” published in Journal of Pragmatics, 19(4), 325-352.
2015 Donal Carbaugh for the book Cultures in Conversation originally published in 2005 (Routledge).
2013 Robert Craig & Karen Tracy for the 1995 article, “Grounded practical theory: The case of intellectual discussion.” Communication Theory, 5, 248-272.
2011 Emanuel A. Schegloff for the 1974 article, “A simplest systematics for the organization of turn-taking for conversation,” by H. Sacks, E.A. Schegloff, and G. Jefferson, published in Language, 50, 696-735.
2009 Barnett Pearce and Vernon Cronen for the 1980 work, Communication, Action, and Meaning” which elaborated the basic argument for the Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM) (Praeger).
2007 Richard Buttny for the 1993 book Social Accountability (Sage).
2005 Scott Jacobs and Sally Jackson for the 1980 article, “Structure of conversational argument: Pragmatic bases for the enthymeme,” published in The Quarterly Journal of Speech, 66, 251-265.
2003 Lawrence Wieder for the 1974 work, “Language and social reality: The case of telling the convict code.” Netherlands: The Hague.
2000 Anita Pomerantz for the 1978 work “Compliment Responses: Notes on the Co-operation of Multiple Constraints.” In J. N. Schenkein (Ed.), Studies in the Organization of Conversational Interaction (pp. 79-112). New York: Academic.
1998 Gerry Philipsen for the 1977 article, “Speaking ‘Like a Man’ in Teamsterville: Culture Patterns of Role Enactment in an Urban Neighborhood, published in Quarterly Journal of Speech, 61, 13-22.