Outstanding Dissertation

2024 Award Winners

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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, University of Macau Recent Scholarship Award: Kellie Carst...
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2016 Outstanding Dissertation

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Nadezhda Sotirova (University of Minnesota Morris): “'Of All, I Most Hate Bulgarians': Situating Oplakvane in Bulgarian Discourse as a Term for Communication Practice”. Nade’s dissertation is an ethnographic study of communication focusing on Bulgarian identity, culture and community. Reviewers were impressed with how the research couples a nuanced study of specific communication practices with a whole national ethos. The study enriches the field of the ethnography of communication su...
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2015 Outstanding Dissertation

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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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2014 Outstanding Dissertation

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Joshua Raclaw, currently an honorary fellow at University of Wisconsin-Madison: Indexing inferables and organizational shifts: ‘No’-prefaces in English conversation. Dissertation chair: Barbara Fox of University of Colorado. Reviewers wrote that:  This research employs theories and methods well-grounded in the LSI historical community, but makes strong, clear contributions to that literature as well. The author ably employs complimentary analytic concepts that span sub-disciplinary boundaries...
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Awards 1982-2006

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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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