Language and Social Interaction Division
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Interest Group Awards
2025
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.
Top Paper Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Todd Sandel, “Shared Eating with Chopsticks: Coordinated Action and Turn Design” |
| 2024 | Nadja Tadic |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Michael Guarino, “Socializing Self-Management and Survivorhood: Patient-Doctor Positioning and Personal Responsibility in Rare Disease Patient Narratives” |
| 2024 | Hannah Fedder Williams |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Jungyoon Koh, “Interaction With and About Conversational User Interfaces: An Interactional Sociolinguistic Approach” |
| 2024 | Huang Shan |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Thomas Martine, Boris Brummans, and Francois Cooren |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 2024 | Kellie Carstensen |
| 2018 | Dr. Galina B. Bolden, “Negotiating understanding in “intercultural moments” in immigrant family interactions” |