Pedagogical Resources


Thanks for visiting the LSI pedagogy page. This website is intended to be a resource for scholars who teach Language and Social Interaction courses. It is still under construction! Feel free to share your own LSI teaching resources (syllabi, assignments, reading lists, electronic resource and links) or share your perspectives on what still needs to be added. Please email Leah Wingard and Stephen DiDomenico at: lsiresources@gmail.com

In an attempt to help users differentiate the different types of courses offered here, we have classified courses under the following broad categories according to the types of readings the course uses and the types of topics that the course focuses on. Users should recognize however that courses often fit more than one category.



Lower division language focused courses

Syllabus for Discourse and Social Practices (Tracy)

Syllabus for Introduction to LSI (Hallett)

Discourse Analysis

Syllabus for Discourse in Interaction (Wingard)

Syllabus for Language and Behavior (Dimock)

Syllabus for LSI Methods undergrad (Wingard)

Conversation Analysis

Syllabus for Language, Behavior & Communication (Mandelbaum)

Syllabus for Relationships & Identities (Mandelbaum)


Syllabus for Communication in the Professions (Lawrence)

Syllabus for Studying Social Interaction (Dori-Haconen)



Ethnography of Communication

Syllabus for Cultural Codes in Communication (Carbaugh)

Syllabus for Communication in Everyday Life (Leeds-Hurwitz)


Topical courses with LSI focus


Syllabus for Organizational Discourse (Putnam)

Syllabus for Presentation Techniques (Lawrence)

Syllabus for Talk in the Media (Dori-Haconen)

Syllabus for Interviewing (DiDomenico)

Syllabus for Interpersonal Communication Theory (DiDomenico)




Graduate LSI Courses

Syllabus for Discourse and Social Practices (Tracy) (MA level)

Syllabus for Discourse Analysis (Tracy) (PhD level)

Syllabus for Communication Culture and Nature (Carbaugh)

Syllabus for Psychology of Language (Baldwin)

Syllabus for LSI Methods (Wingard) (Graduate)



Additional Resources

(Please send us more links!)

Books used in LSI courses

Links to teaching resources on CA-Ethno

LSI Archive (SFSU)

Charles Antaki’s
CA tutorial


Coming Soon:

  • Articles and chapters used in LSI courses