Emanuel Abraham Schegloff (born 1937 in New York) is a
Distinguished Professor of
Sociology at the
University of California at Los Angeles
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a Normal school, teachers colle ...
. Along with his collaborators
Harvey Sacks and
Gail Jefferson, Schegloff is regarded as the creator of the field of
Conversation Analysis
Conversation analysis (CA) is an approach to the study of social interaction, embracing both verbal and non-verbal conduct, in situations of everyday life. CA originated as a sociological method, but has since spread to other fields. CA began with ...
.
Life
Schegloff studied journalism at the Hebrew Teacher's College from 1953 to 1957 and was awarded a Bachelor of Journalism at the end of his studies there.
References
*Ochs, Elinor, Emanuel Schegloff and Sandra Thompson. (1996) ''Interaction and Grammar''. Cambridge University Press.
*Harvey Sacks, Emanuel A. Schegloff, Gail Jefferson.
A Simplest Systematics for the Organization of Turn-Taking for Conversation" Language, Vol. 50, No. 4, Part 1 (Dec., 1974), pp. 696–735
*Schegloff, Emanuel A. (2006). ''Sequence organization in interaction: A primer in conversation analysis.'' Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
External links
''Vita''at the UCLA site
Schegloff publications archive
Linguists from the United States
University of California, Los Angeles faculty
1937 births
Living people
American sociologists
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