[Ethnocomm] LSI Awards Call New Deadline: May 31

[Nadja Tadic]

*Apologies for cross-posting; please distribute widely*

Dear all,

The Language and Social Interaction (LSI) Division of the National Communication Association (NCA) is accepting nominations for the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award and the Outstanding Publication Award for LSI Scholarship Older than 5 Years (a.k.a., “The Old Chestnut Award”) by May 31! See below for more information.

Award nominations are done directly through the NCA website: https://www.natcom.org/nca-interest-group-awards-call-for-2025-nominations/

Just make sure to select the “Interest Group Awards” option and then "Language and Social Interaction" as the division for your award nominations.

Best,
Nadja Tadic & Kristella Montiegel
Information Officers
Language and Social Interaction Division
National Communication Association

NCA LSI Call for Awards

Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award
The Language and Social Interaction Division of the National Communication Association 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 2024.

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.

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

Outstanding Publication Award for LSI Scholarship Older than 5 Years (a.k.a., “The Old Chestnut Award”)
This award is presented to the author(s) of an article, chapter, or monograph in the area of language and social interaction published in a recognized scholarly journal, collection of scholarly papers, or series of scholarly monographs. 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 impact on the discipline. Studies of an analytical, critical, empirical, philosophical, or theoretical nature are eligible for consideration. Only published works will be considered.

Past winners include:
Tamar Katriel and Gerry Philipsen (1993)  “What we need is communication": “Communication” as a cultural category in some American speech. Communication Monographs, 48(4).
Francis Cooren (2015) Organizational Discourse: Communication and Constitution. John Wiley and Sons.
Wayne Beach (1993) Transitional Regularities for Casual ‘Okay’ Usages. Journal of Pragmatics, 19(4).
Donal Carbaugh (2005) Cultures in Conversation. Routledge.
Robert Craig & Karen Tracy (1995) Grounded practical theory: The case  of intellectual discussion. Communication Theory, 5, 248-272.
Emanuel A. Schegloff, Harvey Sacks, and Gail Jefferson (1974) A simplest systematics for the organization of turn-taking for conversation,” Language, 50, 696-735

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Nadja Tadic, Ed.D. (she, her, hers)
Assistant Professor
Interim Director of Undergraduate Studies
Head of the Sociolinguistics Concentration
Department of Linguistics
Georgetown University
Poulton 241
nadja.tadic at georgetown.edu
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