Emanuel Abraham Schegloff (July 24, 1937 – May 23, 2024) was an American sociologist who was a distinguished professor of

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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 a ...

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 anal ...

, Schegloff is regarded as a co-creator of the field of conversation analysis.

Life and career

Schegloff studied journalism at the Hebrew Teacher's College from 1953 to 1957 where he was awarded a

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(cum laude). He also had a Bachelor of Arts from

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, where he studied 1954–58. He took a Master of Arts at

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1958–1963. He finished a

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in 1967. He started working at

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in 1972. In 1996, he was promoted to distinguished professor of sociology, from 2010

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. Schegloff died on May 23, 2024, at the age of 86.

Honours and memberships

Schegloff became a member of the

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in 1990 and was declared "Outstanding Scholar of the Year" by the Language and Social Interaction Division of the

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in 1995. In 2010, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the

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. Schegloff was a member of the council of the

1997–2000. He was a fellow of the

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1998–99 and a

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1998–99. He was a member of the editorial board for ''

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'' (1971–72), ''

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ''Behavioral and Brain Sciences'' is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal of Open Peer Commentary established in 1978 by Stevan Harnad and published by Cambridge University Press. According to the ''Journal Citation Reports'', the journal ...

'' (1979–1983), ''

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'' (1981–83), ''

Poetics Today ''Poetics Today: International Journal for Theory and Analysis of Literature and Communication'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal in the field of poetics. The editors-in-chief An editor-in-chief (EIC), also known as lead editor or chi ...

'' (1979–1992 and later), '' Discourse Processes'' (from 1975), ''

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'' (from 1981) and the honorary editorial board of ''

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'' (from 1997).

Selected publications

*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. (1972). "Notes on a conversational practice: formulating place." David Sudnow (ed). ''Studies in Social Interaction.'' New York: Free Press. *Schegloff, Emanuel A. (2006). ''Sequence organization in interaction: A primer in conversation analysis.'' Cambridge:

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References

External links

Schegloff publications archive
1937 births 2024 deaths Linguists from the United States University of California, Los Angeles faculty American sociologists Hebrew College alumni Discourse analysts Harvard College alumni University of California, Berkeley alumni {{US-linguist-stub