<div dir="ltr">

<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Dissertation of the Year Award </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Language and Social Interaction Division of NCA<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Language and Social Interaction Division of the National Communication Association (</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.nca-lsi.org/" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:windowtext">http://www.nca-lsi.org/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">) will recognize the outstanding doctoral dissertation in the field of Language and Social Interaction. Nominations should reflect the division’s focus on situated language usage and social interaction. Analyses of both institutional and everyday interaction, in face-to-face and mediated contexts, and interaction within and across cultural borderlines are welcome. Previous awards have gone to studies in discourse and conversation analysis, speech act theory, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, ethnomethodology, and ethnography of speaking. To be eligible for the award, a dissertation must have been officially completed (i.e., filed and defended) during 2017.<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> <span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Nominations should be made by the dissertation advisor or a member of the Language and Social Interaction Division of NCA. Please email nominations with the following materials:<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">1.       A nomination letter outlining justification for the award.<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">2.       A 500-word (maximum) abstract of the dissertation.<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">3.       The table of contents of the dissertation<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">4.       One dissertation chapter considered to be representative of<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-indent:36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">the manuscript.<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> <span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Send all nomination materials by <b>July 15, 2018 </b>to the Vice Chair Elect, Jessica Robles (<a href="mailto:j.j.robles@lboro.ac.uk">j.j.robles@lboro.ac.uk</a>). Please include “NCA LSI Dissertation Award” in the subject line of your email.<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> <span style="color:rgb(69,60,204)"> <span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The award will be presented at NCA’s Language and Social Interaction Division Business Meeting at the November 2018 convention in Salt Lake City, Utah.<span> <span> </span></span>For more information about the conference, please refer to the link:<span> </span></span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.natcom.org/convention/" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">http://www.natcom.org/convention/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p><br></div><br clear="all" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>------------------------------</div>Dr. Jessica S. Robles</div><div dir="ltr">Department of Social Science<br><div>Loughborough University</div><div>Brockington Extension U4:26</div><div><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:19.2px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000">+44(0)1509 223371</font></span><br></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:19.2px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000">Get full-text versions of my publications<span> </span><a href="https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/dspace-jspui/browse?type=author&order=ASC&rpp=20&value=Robles%2C+Jessica" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">here</a></font></span></div></div></div></div></div></div><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline">

<br></div>