Donal Carbaugh, “Cultures in Conversation”
About the book: Donal Carbaugh’s Cultures in Conversation represents the fundamental role of ethnography in understanding social interaction, and the central place of “culture” within our division. It is a foundational work in the area of culture and communication. The combination of ethnography and discourse analysis and its successful attempt to bridge the micro-macro distinction, especially with respect to intercultural communication, is strong. I...
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2015 Awards
2015 Outstanding Dissertation
Ingrid Li Soto (UC Santa Barbara) “Social Relations and Institutional Structures and in Modern American Political Campaigns.” Dissertation Chair: Geoffrey Raymond.
Reviewers wrote: Soto’s dissertation focuses on the 2008 Presidential Election campaign speeches and
provides a fine grained analysis of interaction between the speaker and the audience. It demonstrates how a successful speech depends on properly timed audience response to the speaker’s communicative actions, whether they are boo...
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2015 Top Paper
Karen Tracy (University of Colorado, Boulder), for the paper “Storytelling and Social Change”
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2015 Top Student Paper
JhuCin Jhang (UT Austin), “Neither Good nor Bad, Neither New nor Old – Coming Out News Delivery Sequences”
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