Wayne Beach, “Transitional Regularities for Casual ‘Okay’ Usages”
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Old Chestnut
2015 Outstanding Scholarship
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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Awards 1982-2006
Recipients of the LSI Dissertation Award (an incomplete list)
2006 Galina Bolden (UCLA): Delayed and incipient actions: The discourse markers “-to” and “so” in Russian and English conversation
2005 Mariaelena Bartesaghi (University of Pennsylvania): Explanatory paths, therapeutic directions, conversational destinations: Accountability and authority in therapeutic interaction
2004 Mardi Kidwell (UCSB): Looking to see someone is looking at you: Gaze and the organization of observability in...
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2007 Outstanding Scholarship
Richard Buttny was awarded the Outstanding Scholarship Award for a Classic Work, also known as the "Old Chestnut" award, for his 1993 books entitled, "Social Accountability" (Sage).
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2009 Outstanding Scholarship
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...
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2011 Outstanding Scholarship
Emanuel A. Schegloff for the 1974 article titled “A simplest systematics for the organization of turn-taking for conversation,” by H. Sacks, E.A. Schegloff, and G. Jefferson, Language, 50, pp. 696-735
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2013 Outstanding Scholarship
Robert Craig & Karen Tracy for the 1995 article titled “Grounded practical theory: The case of intellectual discussion,” Communication Theory, 5, 248-272.
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