Pre-Conference: Discourse & Social Context – Engaging with Discourse Data & Methods to Elevate your Current Research, National Communication Association, Denver, CO, 19 November 2025. (preregistration appreciated but not required)
Join a team of leading scholars from the Language & Social Interaction (LSI) Division of the National Communication Association for a special 1 day Pre-Conference: “Discourse & Social Context – Engaging with Discourse Data & Methods to Elevate your Current Research.” Registration information about the pre-conference (and main conference) can be found here. The day’s activities will occur from 9am to 5:30pm at the Gaylord Rockies Resort and Convention Center in Aurora, Colorado.
The pre-conference is centered around a series of data-focused workshops, where participants from a variety of experience levels – from beginner all the way to advanced – can deepen their skills. Our primary focus will be hands-on application using a variety of methodological and analytical tools inspired by the LSI research tradition.
The agenda for the day:
• 9:00-9:30am Welcome and introductions – Stephen M. DiDomenico (West Chester U.) and Nadja Tadic (Georgetown U.)
• 9:30-10:15am Presentation on discourse analysis as an umbrella term for different LSI methods and analytic tools
• 10:15-11:45am Workshop 1: Interactional Sociolinguistics for social media
o Cynthia Gordon (Georgetown U.), Sylvia Sierra (Syracuse U.), and Hanwool Choe (U- Hong Kong)
• 11:45am-1:30pm Lunch & Networking
• 1:30-3:00pm Workshop 2: Conversation Analysis for health communication
o Christopher Koenig (San Francisco State U.) and Grace Ellen Peters (Colorado Christian U.)
• 3:15-4:45pm Workshop 3: Ethnography of Communication for intercultural communication analysis
o David Boromisza-Habashi (U-Colorado, Boulder) and Leah Sprain (U-Colorado, Boulder)
• 4:45-5:30pm Making connections & closing discussion
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