Emanuel Schegloff

Emanuel Abraham Schegloff (* 1937 ) is an American sociologist . Together with Harvey Sacks and Gail Jefferson , he is considered to be the founder of the research field of conversation analysis .

Life

Schegloff studied at the Hebrew Teacher's College between 1953 and 1957. After graduating with a Bachelor of Journalism (BJ), he moved to Harvard College , where he studied from 1954 to 1958 and completed his Bachelor of Arts in 1958. In 1960 he received his master’s degree from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), where he had studied since 1958.

After graduating, he worked from 1960 to 1962 as an Associate in Social Science at the University of Berkley and then as a Post-Graduate Research Sociologist at the Center for the Study of Law and Society at the same location. This was followed by further positions as a junior researcher at California State College in Los Angeles (1963-64), at Columbia University in New York City (1965-72), Rockefeller University (1971-72), before finally becoming Assistant Professor of 1972 Sociology at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), where he has worked since. In 1967 he received his Ph.D. at UCLA .

After a research stay at the Linguistic Institute of the University of Michigan in 1973, he took on the role of Associate Professor of Sociology at UCLA in 1974 , which he held until 1979. During this time he spent two years as an Associate Professor of Social Science at the University of California at Irvine (1976–1977).

Schegloff has been a full professor of sociology at UCLA since 1979 and held the chair of the Department of Sociology between 1980 and 1982 . In 1991 he taught as a visiting professor at the University of Paris VIII .

Services

Schegloff, together with Harvey Sacks and Gail Jefferson, is considered to be a co-founder of the research area of ethnomethodological conversation analysis. In some fundamental scientific articles in the late 1960s and early 1970s, he and his colleagues formulated basic principles of everyday conversation, the basic principles of which are still valid today.

Later on, Schegloff was instrumental in ensuring that the interactive context was also taken into account in the analysis of conversations. Accordingly, he referred to the subject of the conversation analysis as talk-in-interaction .

Works (selection)

• Emanuel A. Schegloff: Sequencing in Conversational Openings. In: American Anthropologist 70, No. 6, 1968, pp. 1075-1095.
• Emanuel A. Schegloff, Harvey Sacks: Opening Up Closings. In: Semiotica VIII, No. 4, 1973, p. 289-327.
• Harvey Sacks, Emanuel A. Schegloff, Gail Jefferson: A Simplest Systematics for the Organization of Turn-Taking for Conversation. In: Language 50, No. 4, 1974, pp. 696-735.
• Emanuel A. Schegloff, Gail Jefferson, Harvey Sacks: The Preference for Self-Correction in the Organization of Repair in Conversation. In: Language 53, No. 2, 1977, pp. 361-382.
• Emanuel A. Schegloff: Discourse as an Interactional Achievement: Some Uses of 'uh huh' and Other Things That Come Between Sentences. In: D. Tannen (ed.): Georgetown University Roundtable on Languages ​​and Linguistics 1981: Analyzing Discourse (Special Issue of Text and Talk ). Georgetown University Press, 1982, pp. 71-93.
• Emanuel A. Schegloff: Repair After Next Turn: The Last Structurally Provided Defense of Intersubjectivity in Conversation. In: American Journal of Sociology 97, No. 5, 1992, pp. 1295-1345.
• Emanuel A. Schegloff: Body Torque. In: Social Research 65, No. 3, 1998, pp. 535-596.
• Emanuel A. Schegloff: Sequence Organization in Interaction: A Primer in Conversation Analysis I. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (UK) 2007, ISBN 978-0-521-82572-6 .
• Emanuel A. Schegloff, “A Tutorial on Membership Categorization” In: Journal of Pragmatics 39, 2007, pp. 462-482.

Web links

• Literature by and about Emanuel Schegloff in the catalog of the German National Library
• Personal publication archive of Emanuel Schegloff. PDF files of the articles can be ordered free of charge.