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 in face-to-face and mediated contexts, and interaction within and across diverse l...
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Awards
2023 Award Winners
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
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2023 Call for Award Nominations
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 doct...
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2018 Outstanding Dissertation
Alexa Bolaños-Carpio, “Interactions in calls to the 9-1-1 Emergency System in Costa Rica”.
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Call for nominations: The Recent Scholarship Award
Call for nominations: 2018 Outstanding Publication Award for LSI Scholarship Within 5 years (a.k.a., “The Recent Scholarship Award”)
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 scholarl...
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2018 Dissertation Award Nominations
Dissertation of the Year Award for 2018
Language and Social Interaction Division of NCA
The Language and Social Interaction Division of the National Communication Association (http://www.nca-lsi.org/) will recognize the 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 both institutional and everyday interaction, in face-to-face and me...
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2017 Dissertation of the Year Award
Dissertation of the Year Award for 2017—nomination deadline, July 15, 2017
The Language and Social Interaction Division of the National Communication Association (http://www.nca-lsi.org/) will recognize the 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 both institutional and everyday interaction, in face-to-face and mediated contexts, and interact...
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2016 Dissertation of the Year Award
Dissertation of the Year Award for 2016
Language and Social Interaction Division of NCA
The Language and Social Interaction Division of the National Communication Association (http://www.nca-lsi.org/) will recognize the 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 both institutional and everyday interaction, in face-to-face and media...
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2016 Outstanding Publication Award for LSI Scholarship Within 5 years (a.k.a., “The Recent Scholarship 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 int...
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2015 Dissertation Award Nominations
Dissertation of the Year Award for 2015
Language and Social Interaction Division of NCA
The Language and Social Interaction Division of the National Communication Association (http://www.nca-lsi.org/) will recognize the 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 both institutional and everyday interaction, in face-to-face and mediated contex...
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