Chase Raymond, University of Colorado, Boulder: “The ‘Do’-Construction in English Conversation”
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Division Awards
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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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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2014 Outstanding Dissertation
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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2014 Top Student Paper
Chase Wesley Raymond, UCLA, for the paper: Code-switched responses to inquiry.
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2014 Top Paper
Danielle Pillet-Shore, University of New Hampshire for the paper: Criticizing another’s child: Regular ways teachers manage evaluating students during parent-teacher conferences.
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2014 Outstanding Scholarship
Gene H. Lerner (UCSB, Dept of Sociology) (2013). On the place of hesitating in delicate formulations: A turn-constructional infrastructure for collaborative indiscretion. In J. Sidnell, M. Hayashi & G. Raymond (Eds.), Conversational Repair and Human Understanding. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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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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