2018 Outstanding Dissertation – Language and Social Interaction

Alexa Bolaños-Carpio, “Interactions in calls to the 9-1-1 Emergency System in Costa Rica”.

2024 Award Winners

Posted: December 4, 2024

Top Student Paper Award: “Framing and Positioning Research Interviews: An Interactional Sociolinguistic Approach to Understanding Strategies of Neutrality and Rapport” by Hannah Fedder Williams, Georgetown University Top Paper Award: “Categorizing the Self to Stereotype the Other” by Dr. Nadja Tadic, Georgetown University Outstanding Dissertation Award: “Ethnomethodological Analysis of Online Classroom Interaction” by Dr. Shan Huang, […]

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