Language and Social Interaction Division
Interest Group Awards
Listed here are awards given by the Interest Group to its members. Interests Groups are smaller communities within NCA's large membership that provide a range of resources including networking opportunities, Annual Convention programming, leadership opportunities, awards, and specialized information dissemination channels, among others.
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Top Paper Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2021 | Nimrod Shavit,"Economic Rationality as a Determinant of Formality in Communication Situations" |
| 2020 | Jessica Robles and Bingjuan Xiong, "How Quotation Marks do Mockery in Politicized Discourse Online" |
| 2019 | Darcey K. (Searles) deSouza, "Object identification in family interactions: An orientation to selecting the most precise term" |
| 2018 | Joshua Raclaw and Innhwa Park, "'Wait What?': Wait-Prefacing in Delayed Repaired Initiations" |
| 2017 | Edward Reynolds and Marki Kidwell |
| 2016 | Chase Wesley Raymond, "The 'Do'-constuction in English Conversation" |
| 2015 | Karen Tracy, “Storytelling and Social Change” |
| 2014 | Danielle Pillet-Shore, “How teachers evaluate students during parent-teacher conferences” |
| 2013 | Danielle Pillet-Shore, “Doing ‘how I’m coming here’: Displaying a state of being when opening face-to-face interaction” |
| 2013 | Lydia Reinig, “‘Can I ask you a question?’: Confronting ethnographer identity in ‘interview flipping’” |
| 2012 | Danielle Kvam, “'Conservation without money is just conversation’: Metaphors of environmental conservation in rural Ecuador” |
| 2011 | Hye Ri Stephanie Kim, “Turn design and action projection in comparative perspective” |
| 2010 | Hee Lee, “Responding at a Higher Level” |
| 2009 | Danielle Pillet-Shore, “Coming Together: Creating and Maintaining Social Relationships through the Openings of Face-to-Face Interactions” |
| 2008 | Danielle Pillet-Shore, "Making way and making sense for arrivers: Pre-present parties' previous activity formulations" |
| 2007 | Emma Beitz, "Syntactic Resources for Managing Speakership and Recipiency in Everyday Interaction: Pivots in German Conversation" |
Top Student Paper Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2021 | Nora Suren,"This isn't a MAGA rally. It's the Emmys.': Recreating the White Masculine Elite Public Sphere at the Opening Monologues of Entertainment Award Ceremonies" |
| 2020 | Menno Reijven and Alkim Yalin, "Categorizing Youtube Comments as Act Sequences" |
| 2019 | Jeanette German, “Health and Safety First”: Constructing a Collective Identity Through Talk at Local Political Meetings" |
| 2018 | Sarah Seewoester Cain, "Individual Audience Member Clapping During Open-Mic Comedy Performances" |
| 2017 | Carol Hoi Yee Lo |
| 2016 | Amelia Hill, "'Suspect' Identity: The Use of Race in Requests for Police Intervention" |
| 2015 | JhuCin Jhang, “Neither Good nor Bad, Neither New nor Old – Coming Out News Delivery Sequences” |
| 2014 | Chase Raymond, “Code-switched Responses to Inquiry” |
| 2011 | Laila Hualpa, “ President Obama’s embodied stance displays while monitoring questions in presidential news conferences” |
Dissertation of the Year Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2022 | Dr. Menno Reijven, “‘I want you to defend that!’ The Argumentative Structure of U.S.A. Presidential Debates," published in Doctoral Dissertations in 2022. |
| 2021 | Grace Peters,"Communication Skills in Medical Education: A Discourse Analysis of Standardized Patient Practices" (University of South Florida, May 2020) |
| 2020 | Lydia Reinig, "Participating in Boulder's Energy Future: Discursive Configurations of Public Participation for Energy System Transformation" |
| 2019 | Adrian Kerrison, "We’re All Behind You: The Co-Construction of Turns and Sequences-at-Cheering" |
| 2017 | Emily Hofstetter |
| 2016 | Nadezhda Sotirova, "'Of All, I Most Hate Bulgarians': Situating Oplakvane in Bulgarian Discourse as a Cultural Term for Communicative Practice" |
| 2015 | Ingrid Li Sato (Ph.D., UC Santa Barbara), “Social Relations and Institutional Structures and in Modern American Political Campaigns” |
| 2014 | Joshua Raclaw, (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison), “Indexing inferables and organizational shifts: ‘No’-prefaces in English conversation” |
| 2013 | Hsin-I Yueh, (Ph.D., University of Iowa), “The tactic of the weak: A critical analysis of feminine persuasion in Taiwan” |
| 2012 | Stephanie Hye Ri Kim (Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles), “Beginning an action in English and Korean: Turn design and action projection” |
| 2011 | Satomi Kuroshima (Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles), “Ordering sushi: The intersection of linguistic form, culture and social setting in the United Sates and Japan.” |
| 2010 | Leah Sprain (Ph.D., University of Washington), “Cultivating Cooperativism: An Ethnography of Communication in Nicaraguan Fair Trade Cooperative Meetings” |
| 2009 | Danielle Pillet-Shore (PhD, UCLA), “Coming Together: Creating and Maintaining Social Relationships through the Openings of Face-to-Face Interactions” |
| 2008 | Estafania Guimares (PhD, University of York, UK), "Talking about violence: Women reporting abuse in Brazil" |
| 2006 | Galina Bolden (PhD, UCLA), “Delayed and incipient actions: The discourse markers “-to” and “so” in Russian and English conversation” |
| 2005 | Mariaelena Bartesaghi (PhD, University of Pennsylvania), “Explanatory paths, therapeutic directions, conversational destinations: Accountability and authority in therapeutic interaction” |
| 2004 | Mardi Kidwell (PhD, UCSB), “Looking to see someone is looking at you: Gaze and the organization of observability in very young children’s harassing acts toward a peer” |
Outstanding Scholarly Publication Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2021 | Tamar Katriel & Gerry Philipsen ,"What we Need is 'Communication': 'Communication' as a Cultural Category in Some American Speech,"published in Communication Monographs in 1981. |
| 2020 | Michelle Scollo and Trudy Milburn, "Engaging and transforming global communication through cultural discourse analysis: A tribute to Donal Carbaugh" |
| 2016 | Jeffrey Robinson |
| 2015 | Donal Carbaugh (2005), “Cultures in Conversation,” New York: Routledge |
| 2014 | Gene Lerner (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 |
| 2013 | Robert T. Craig and Karen Tracy (1995), “Grounded practical theory: The case of intellectual discussion.” Communication Theory, 5(3), 248-272 |
| 2012 | Michelle Scollo (2011), “Cultural approaches to discourse analysis: A theoretical and methodological conversation with special focus on Donal Carbaugh's Cultural Discourse Theory,” Journal of Multicultural Discourses, 6, 1-32 |
| 2011 | Emmanuel A. Schegloff (1974), “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 |
| 2010 | Wayne A. Beach (2009), ”A natural history of family cancer: Interactional resolutions to medical problems,” Hampton Press |
| 2009 | Barnett Pearce & Vernon Cronen, (1980), "Communication, action, and meaning: The creation of social realities," Praeger Publishers |
| 2008 | Kristine Fitch (2006), "Cultural Persuadables," Communication Theory 13(1), 100-123 |
| 2007 | Richard Buttny (1993), "Social Accountability," Sage |
| 2006 | Phillip Glenn (2003), “Laughter in Interaction,” Cambridge: Cambridge University Press |
| 2005 | Scott Jacobs & Sally Jackson (1980), “Structure of conversational argument: Pragmatic bases for the enthymeme,” Quarterly Journal of Speech, 66, 251-265 |
| 2004 | Steve Clayman & John Heritage (2002), “Questioning Presidents: Journalistic deference and adversarialness in the press conferences of U.S. presidents Eisenhower and Reagan,” Journal of Communication, 52(4), 749-775 |
| 2003 | Lawrence Wieder (1974), “Language and social reality: The case of telling the convict code,” Netherlands: The Hague |
| 2002 | Robert Hopper & Curtis LeBaron (1998), “How Gender Creeps into Talk,” Research on Language and Social Interaction, 31(1), 59-74 |
| 2000 | Anita Pomerantz (1978), “Compliment Responses: Notes on the Co-operation of Multiple Constraints.” In J. N. Schenkein (Ed.), Studies in the organization of conversational interaction (pp. 79-112). New York: Academic |
| 1999 | Karen Tracy (1997), “Colloquium Dilemmas of Academic Discourse,” Norwood, NJ: Ablex |
| 1998 | Gerry Philipsen (1977), “Speaking ‘Like a Man’ in Teamsterville: Culture Patterns of Role Enactment in an Urban Neighborhood,” Quarterly Journal of Speech 61, 13-22 |
| 1996 | Robert Hopper (1981), “The taken-for-granted.” Human Communication Research, 7(3), 195-211 |
Outstanding Recent Scholarship Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2018 | Dr. Galina B. Bolden, "Negotiating understanding in "intercultural moments" in immigrant family interactions" |