Call for Nominations: Language & Social Interaction Dissertation Award

[David Boromisza-Habashi]

Call for Nominations
Language & Social Interaction Dissertation Award

 The Language & Social Interaction Division of the National
Communication Association will recognize the outstanding dissertation
in the field of language and social interaction.  Appropriate topics
include situated conversation, language use, and embodied interaction
in settings such as: classrooms, doctors’ offices, public meetings,
work and home, as well as interactions between and across cultural
borderlines. Previous awards have gone to studies of discourse
processes, communication competence, speech act theory,
sociolinguistics, ethnomethodology, and ethnographies of speaking. To
be eligible for the award, a dissertation must be completed during
2008. Nominations should be made by the dissertation advisor or a
member of the Language & Social Interaction Division.

Please email nominations with the following materials:
1   A nomination letter outlining justification for the award.
2.  A 500-word (maximum) abstract of the dissertation.      3.  A .pdf
article-length report of the dissertation, or a selection of 30 pages
(double-spaced) considered to be representative of the manuscript.

 The award will be presented at NCA’s Language & Social Interaction
Division Business Meeting at the November 2009 convention in Chicago.

Send nominations and materials by September 15, 2009 to both co-Chairs
Elect:   Trudy Milburn, Ph.D.  HYPERLINK
"mailto:trudy.milburn at csuci.edu" trudy.milburn at csuci.edu  and  Leslie
H. Jarmon, Ph.D.  HYPERLINK "mailto:LJarmon at austin.utexas.edu"
LJarmon at austin.utexas.edu



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David Boromisza-Habashi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Communication
University of Colorado
270 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0270, USA

office location: Hellems 78
work phone: +1 (303) 735 5076
work fax: +1 (303) 492 8411

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