Emanuel Abraham Schegloff (born 1937 in New York) is a

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Sociology Sociology is a social science that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. It uses various methods of empirical investigation an ...

at the

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. Along with his collaborators

Harvey Sacks Harvey Sacks (July 19, 1935 – November 14, 1975) was an American sociologist influenced by the ethnomethodology tradition. He pioneered extremely detailed studies of the way people use language in everyday life. Despite his early death in ...

and

Gail Jefferson Gail Jefferson (22 April 1938 – 21 February 2008) was an American sociologist with an emphasis in sociolinguistics. She was, along with Harvey Sacks and Emanuel Schegloff, one of the founders of the area of research known as conversation analysi ...

, 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:

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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 {{US-linguist-stub