[Ethnocomm] NCA LSI Awards Call for Dissertation of the Year and Outstanding Publication

[Nadja Tadic]

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The Language and Social Interaction (LSI) Division of the National Communication Association (NCA) is accepting nominations for an Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award and Outstanding Publication Award. See below for details.

Doctoral Dissertation of the Year Award
The LSI Division will recognize an 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 institutional and everyday interaction, interaction in face-to-face and mediated contexts, and interaction within and across diverse linguistic and cultural groups are welcome. Previous awards have gone to studies in discourse and conversation analysis, speech act theory, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, ethnomethodology, and the ethnography of communication. To be eligible for the award, a dissertation must have been officially completed (i.e., filed and defended) during 2023.

Nominations should be made by the dissertation advisor or a member of the LSI Division of NCA. Please email nominations with the following materials:

1. nomination letter outlining the justification for the award (may be submitted under separate cover).
2. 500-word (maximum) abstract of the dissertation.
3. PDF copy of the full dissertation.

Send all nomination materials to the Vice Chair Elect, Stephen DiDomenico (sdidomenico at wcupa.edu). Please include “NCA LSI Dissertation Award” in the subject line of your email. Deadline for submission is June 15, 2024. The award will be presented at NCA’s LSI Division Virtual Business Meeting in November 2024.

Outstanding Publication Award for LSI Scholarship Within 5 years (a.k.a., “The Recent Scholarship Award”)
This award is presented to the author(s) of an article, chapter, or monograph in the area of language and social interaction. Any member of the LSI Division may nominate a published work; the senior author must be a member of the LSI Division during the year in which the award is made. Selection criteria shall include scholarly merit, contribution to knowledge in language and social interaction, and current impact on the discipline. Studies of an analytical, critical, empirical, philosophical, or theoretical nature that make a contribution to LSI are eligible for consideration. Only actually published works will be considered.

To submit a nomination for this award, please include:

1. 1-page letter explaining the significance of the work and the impact it has on our field
2. (if available)  a PDF copy of the work along with the complete citation.

Direct your nominations to LSI Immediate Past Chair, Cynthia Gordon (gordonc at georgetown.edu). Deadline for submission is June 15, 2024. The award will be presented at NCA’s LSI Division Virtual Business Meeting in November 2024.

Previous recipients of this award include:
2022: Robert Craig and Dr. Karen Tracy, for the book Grounded Practical Theory: Investigating Communication Problems.
2020: Michelle Scollo and Trudy Milburn (Eds.), for the volume Engaging and Transforming Global Communication through Cultural Discourse Analysis: A Tribute to Donal Carbaugh
2016: Jeffrey Robinson, for the article “What ‘What’ Tells Us about How Conversationalists Manage Intersubjectivity” published in Research in Language and Social Interaction, 47(2).

For more information about our division and past award recipients, please refer to our website: www.ncalsi.org

Nadja Tadic & Kellie Carstensen
Information Officers
Language and Social Interaction Division
National Communication Association

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Nadja Tadic, Ed.D. (she, her, hers)
Assistant Professor
Department of Linguistics
Georgetown University
Poulton 241
nadja.tadic at georgetown.edu
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