2009 Outstanding Scholarship

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Barnett Pearce & Vernon Cronen was awarded the Old Chestnut Award for their classic work, "Communication, action, and meaning" (1980), which elaborated the basic argument for the Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM). This important scholarship was ground breaking because it helped to open a space for LSI work because it offered a way to understanding something between people rather than recycling (social) psychological variables that were popular in mainstream communication research of...

2009 Top Four Panel

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Laura O'Hara (Ball State University), Carolyn Shue (Ball State University), James McKenzie (Ball State University), David Marini (Ball State University),Jennifer Flanagan (Ball Memorial Hospital Family Medicine Clinic), Linda Daniel (BMH Family Medicine Residency Program), "A simple demographic question: A discursive negotiation of face when asking the 'race question’” H. Stephanie Kim (University of California, Los Angeles) for the paper entitled, "Resuming a telling: well-prefaced tur...

2009 Top Paper

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Danielle Pillet-Shore (PhD, UCLA), Coming Together: Creating and Maintaining Social Relationships through the Openings of Face-to-Face Interactions

2009 Dissertation Award

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Danielle Pillet-Shore (PhD, UCLA), Coming Together: Creating and Maintaining Social Relationships through the Openings of Face-to-Face Interactions

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 […]