Awards

1982 NCA Award Winners

NCA Award Winners by Year

Scholarship Awards

Charles H. Woolbert Research Award

  • Donald Cushman & Gordon Whiting, “An Approach to Communication Theory: Toward Consensus on Rules.” Journal of Communication 22 (1972): 217-238

Franklyn S. Haiman Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Freedom of Expression

  • Raymond Rodgers, “Movement on the Periphery: Foreign Travel as a First Amendment Right,” Free Speech Yearbook 21 (1982): 50-69.

Gerald R. Miller Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Awards

  • Randall Lake, University of Kansas. “The Ethics of Rhetoric and the Rhetoric of Ethics in the Abortion Controversy,” (Donn Parson, advisor).
  • Karen Tracy, University of Wisconsin. “The Issue-Event Distinction as an Aspect of Conversational Coherence: A Rule and its Scope Conditions,” (Dean E. Hewes, advisor).

Golden Anniversary Book Award

  • Carol Wilder, Rigor and Imagination: Essays from the Legacy of Gregory Bateson (Praeger, 1981).
  • Franklyn Haiman, Speech and Law in a Free Society (University of Chicago Press, 1981).

James A. Winans-Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address

  • Franklyn Haiman, Speech and Law in a Free Society (University of Chicago Press, 1981).

Karl R. Wallace Memorial Award

  • Carol Jablonski

 

Service Awards

Robert J. Kibler Memorial Award

  • Gerald Miller

Samuel L. Becker Distinguished Service Award

  • Lester Thonssen