Emanuel Schegloff (b. 1937, New York) is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of California at Los Angeles. With Harvey Sacks and Gail Jefferson, Schegloff was one of the principal creators of the field of Conversation Analysis. His work in interactional linguistics is similarly foundational.

References

• Ochs, Elinor, Emanuel Schegloff and Sandra Thompson. (1996) Interaction and Grammar. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 052155828X
• 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. ISBN 0521825725

External links

• Vita at the UCLA site
• Schegloff publications archive

Curriculum Vitae

EMANUEL A. SCHEGLOFF

Department of Sociology

2201 Hershey Hall

UCLA

Los Angeles, California 90095-1551

Phone: (310) 825-1719, 825-1313;

Fax: (310) 206-9838

e-mail: Scheglof@soc.ucla.edu

 

Education

Hebrew Teacher's College, 1953-57, B.J.Ed. (cum laude), 1957

Harvard College, 1954-58, B.A. (magna cum laude), 1958

University of California, Berkeley, 1958-63, M.A., 1960; Ph.D. 1967

 

Fellowships and Honors

Woodrow Wilson National Fellow, 1958-59

Woodrow Wilson Fellow, University of California, Berkeley, 1959-60

Fellow, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences and Humanities,

1978-79

McGovern Lecture in Communications, University of Texas, 1985

Starr Lecture in Linguistics, Middlebury College, 1987

Member, Sociological Research Association, 1990-

Brittingham Visiting Scholar and Brittingham Lecture, University of Wisconsin, Madison,

November, 1991

Outstanding Scholar of the Year, 1995, International Communication Association,

Division on Language and Social Interaction

Member of the Council, Section on Theory, American Sociological Association, 1997-2000

Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, 1998-99

Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1998-99

 

Teaching and Research Appointments

Associate in Social Science, University of California, Berkeley, 1960-62

Post-graduate Research Sociologist, Center for the Study of Law and Society,

University of California, Berkeley, l962-63

Assistant Professor of Sociology (part time), California State College at Los Angeles, 1963-64

Research Associate, Disaster Research Center, The Ohio State University, l964-65

Instructor to Assistant Professor of Sociology, Columbia University, 1965-72

Project Director and Principal Investigator, Bureau of Applied Social Research,

Columbia University, l966-69

Visiting Assistant Professor, Rockefeller University, 1971-72

Assistant Professor of Sociology, UCLA, 1972-74

Visiting Assistant Professor, Linguistic Institute, University of Michigan, 1973

Associate Professor of Sociology, UCLA, 1974-1979

Associate Professor of Social Science, UC Irvine, 1976-77

Professor of Sociology, UCLA, 1979-

Chair, Department of Sociology, UCLA, 1980-l982

Visiting Professor, University of Paris VIII, June, 1991

 

Editorial and Refereeing Service

Member of the Editorial Board, Language in Society, 1971-72

Member of the Editorial Board, Pragmatics Microfiche, 1976-1980

Member of the Editorial Board, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1979-l983

Member of the Editorial Board, Sociological Theory, l98l-l983

Member of the Editorial Board, Poetics Today, 1979-1992 , 1995-

Member of the Editorial Board, Language and Cognitive Processes, 1985-1995

Member of the Editorial Board, Discourse Processes, 1975-

Member of the Editorial Board, Pragmatics and Beyond (monograph series) 1979-

Member of the Editorial Board, Journal of Pragmatics, 1981-

Member of the Editorial Board, Research on Language and Social Interaction, 1987-

Member of the Honorary Editorial Board, Discourse Studies, 1997-

Member of the Editorial Board, Psychotherapie und Sozialwissenschaft (Journal for Qualitative

Research and Psychotherapy), 1998-

 

Occasional referee for:

American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Sociometry, Sociological Theory, Social

Problems, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Language, Psychological Review, Social Psychology

Quarterly, Semiotica, Linguistics, Psychological Bulletin, Language and Speech, Western Journal of Speech

Communication, Symbolic Interaction, Qualitative Sociology, Studies in African Linguistics, Communication

Theory, Text, Human-Computer Interaction, Journal of Language and Social Psychology, Academic Press,

Cambridge University Press.

National Endowment for the Humanities, National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Social

Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation.

 

Publications

Emanuel A. Schegloff and Carlos Kruytbosch: "Some Comments on Working Class Authoritarianism", Berkeley Journal of Sociology, VI, 1 (1961) 99-105.

Emanuel A. Schegloff: "Toward a Reading of Psychiatric Theory," Berkeley Journal of Sociology,

VIII (1963) 61-91.

Emanuel A. Schegloff: "Sequencing in Conversational Openings," American Anthropologist, 70, 6

(1968) 1075-1095.

Reprinted in:

J. J. Gumperz and D. Hymes (eds.), Directions in Sociolinguistics (New York: Holt,

Rinehardt and Winston, 1972);

J. Fishman (ed.), Advances in Sociolinguistics (The Hague: Mouton and Co., 1973);

J. Helmer (ed.), Urbanman: The Psychology of Urban Survival (New York:

MacMillan, The Free Press, 1973);

John Laver and Sandy Hutcheson (eds.), Communication in Face-to-Face Interaction

(London: Penguin Modern Linguistics Readings, Penguin Books, 1972);

J. Coulter (ed.), Ethnomethodological Sociology (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing

Limited, 1989).

Emanuel A. Schegloff: "Notes on a Conversational Practice: Formulating Place," in D. N. Sudnow

(ed.), Studies in Social Interaction (New York: MacMillan, The Free Press, 1972) 75-119.

Reprinted in:

P. P. Giglioli (ed.), Language and Social Context (London: Penguin Modern Sociology

Readings, Penguin Books, 1972).

Emanuel A. Schegloff and Harvey Sacks: "Opening Up Closings," Semiotica, VIII, 4 (1973)

289-327.

Reprinted in:

R. Turner (ed.), Ethnomethodology (London: Penguin Modern Sociology Readings,

Penguin Books, 1974);

J. Baugh and J. Sherzer (eds.), Language in Use: Readings in Sociolinguistics. (Englewood

Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1984)

Harvey Sacks, Emanuel A. Schegloff and Gail Jefferson: "A Simplest Systematics for the

Organization of Turn-Taking for Conversation," Language, 50, 4 (1974) 696-735

Reprinted in:

J. Schenkein (ed.), Studies in the Organization of Conversational Interaction (New York:

Academic Press, Inc., 1978);

R. Hodge, et al., Readings in Language and Communication for Teachers (Melbourne:

Longman Cheshire House).

A. Kasher (ed.), Pragmatics: Critical Assessment (London: Routledge, 1997), Vol. 5, 193-242.

Emanuel A. Schegloff: "On Some Questions and Ambiguities in Conversation," Pragmatics

Microfiche (1976), 2.2:D8-G12.

Reprinted in:

W. Dressler (ed.), Current Trends in Textlinguistics (Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter,

1978) 81-102;

J.M. Atkinson and J. C. Heritage (eds.), Structures of Social Action, (Cambridge: Cambridge

University Press, 1984), 28-52.

Emanuel A. Schegloff: "Identification and Recognition in Interactional Openings," in I. de Sola Pool

(ed.), The Social Impact of the Telephone (Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1977) 415-450.

Gail Jefferson, Harvey Sacks and Emanuel A. Schegloff: "Preliminary Notes on The Sequential

Organization of Laughter," Pragmatics Microfiche (1977).

Emanuel A. Schegloff, Gail Jefferson and Harvey Sacks: "The Preference for Self-Correction in the

Organization of Repair in Conversation," Language, 53, 2 (1977) 361-382.

Reprinted in:

G. Psathas, J. Coulter, and R. Frankel (eds.), Interaction Competence, (Washington, D.C.:

University Press of America, 1990) 31-61.

A. Kasher (ed.), Pragmatics: Critical Assessment (London: Routledge, 1997), Vol. 5, 243-72.

Harvey Sacks and Emanuel A. Schegloff: "Two Preferences in the Organization of Reference to

Persons in Conversation and Their Interaction," in G. Psathas (ed.), Everyday Language:

Studies in Ethnomethodology (New York: Irvington Publishers, Inc., 1979) 15-21.

Published simultaneously as:

"Zwei Pr?ferenzen in der Organisation personaler Referenz in der Konversation und

ihre Wechselwirkung," in U. Quasthoff (ed.), Sprachstruktur - Socialstruktur (Berlin: Skriptor

Verlag, 1979) 150-157.

Emanuel A. Schegloff: "Identification and Recognition in Telephone Conversation Openings," in G.

Psathas (ed.), Everyday Language: Studies in Ethnomethodology (New York: Irvington Publishers, Inc.,

1979) 23-78.

Emanuel A. Schegloff: "The Relevance of Repair to Syntax-for-Conversation," in T. Givon (ed.),

Syntax and Semantics, Volume 12: Discourse and Syntax (New York: Academic Press, 1979) 261-286.

Emanuel A. Schegloff: "What Type of Interaction Is It to Be?," in The Proceedings of the Annual

Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Philadelphia, June 1980.

Emanuel A. Schegloff: "Preliminaries to Preliminaries: 'Can I ask you a question'," Sociological

Inquiry, 50, 3-4 (1980) 104-152.

Emanuel A. Schegloff: "Discourse as an Interactional Achievement: Some Uses of 'uh huh' and

Other Things That Come Between Sentences," in Georgetown University Roundtable on

Languages and Linguistics l98l; Analyzing Discourse: Text and Talk, ed. by D. Tannen

(Georgetown University Press, l982) 7l-93.

Emanuel A. Schegloff: "On Some Gestures' Relation to Talk," in J. M. Atkinson and J. Heritage

(eds.), Structures of Social Action, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, l984), 266-298.

Emanuel A. Schegloff: "The Routine as Achievement," Human Studies, 9 (1986), 111-151.

Emanuel A. Schegloff: "Recycled Turn Beginnings," in G. Button and J. R.E. Lee (eds.), Talk and

Social Organization (Clevedon, England: Multilingual Matters, Ltd., 1987),70-85.

Emanuel A. Schegloff: "Between Macro and Micro: Contexts and Other Connections," in J.

Alexander, B. Giessen, R. Munch and N. Smelser (eds.), The Macro-Micro Link (Berkeley

and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1987), 207-234.

Abridged translation in:

Societés 14(1987): 17-22.

Gail Jefferson, Harvey Sacks and Emanuel A. Schegloff: "Notes on Laughter in the Pursuit of

Intimacy," in G. Button and J. R.E. Lee (eds.), Talk and Social Organization, (Clevedon,

England: Multilingual Matters, Ltd., 1987), 152-205.

Emanuel A. Schegloff: "Some Sources of Misunderstanding in Talk-in-Interaction," Linguistics, 25

(1987), 201-218.

Emanuel A. Schegloff: "Analyzing Single Episodes of Interaction: An Exercise in Conversation

Analysis," Social Psychology Quarterly, 50, 2 (1987), 101-114.

Emanuel A. Schegloff: "Discourse as an Interactional Achievement II: An Exercise in Conversation

Analysis," in D. Tannen (ed.), Linguistics in Context: Connecting Observation and Understanding:

Lectures from the 1985 LSA/TESOL and NEH Institutes (Norwood,

NJ: Ablex, 1988), 135-158.

Emanuel A. Schegloff: "Presequences and Indirection: Applying Speech Act Theory to Ordinary

Conversation," Journal of Pragmatics, 12 (1988), 55-62.

Emanuel A. Schegloff: "Goffman and the Analysis of Conversation." in P. Drew and T. Wootton

(eds.), Erving Goffman: Exploring the Interaction Order (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1988),

9-135.

Emanuel A. Schegloff: "Description in the Social Sciences I: Talk-in-Interaction." Papers in

Pragmatics 2 (1988):1-24.

Emanuel A. Schegloff: "On an Actual Virtual Servo-Mechanism for Guessing Bad News: A Single

Case Conjecture." Social Problems, 35(1988):442-457.

Emanuel A. Schegloff: "From Interview to Confrontation: Observations on the Bush/Rather

Encounter." Research on Language and Social Interaction, 22(1988/89):215-240.

Emanuel A. Schegloff: "Reflections on Language, Development, and the Interactional Character of

Talk-in-Interaction." in M. H. Bornstein and J. S. Bruner (eds.), Interaction in Human Development

(New York: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1989), 139-153.

Emanuel A. Schegloff: "Harvey Sacks - Lectures 1964-65: An Introduction/Memoir." Human

Studies, 12(1989):185-209.

Emanuel A. Schegloff: "Discussion of Suchman and Jordan, 'Interactional Troubles in Face-to-Face

Survey Interviews,'" Journal of the American Statistical Association 85(1990):248-250.

Reprinted as:

"Survey Interviews as Talk-in-Interaction." in D. W. Maynard, H. Houtkoop, N. C. Schaeffer

and H. van der Zouwen (eds.) Standardization and Tacit Knowledge: Interaction and Practice in

the Survey Interview. (New York: John Wiley, frth).

Emanuel A. Schegloff: "On the Organization of Sequences as a Source of 'Coherence' in Talk-in-

Interaction." in B. Dorval (ed.), Conversational Organization and its Development. (Norwood, New

Jersey:Ablex, 1990), 51-77.

Emanuel A. Schegloff: "What is Applied Linguistics? Who is an Applied Linguist?" Issues in Applied

Linguistics 1(1990):161-62.

Emanuel A. Schegloff: "Reflections on Talk and Social Structure." in D. Boden and D. Zimmerman

(eds.), Talk and Social Structure. (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1991), 44-70.

Emanuel A. Schegloff: "Conversation Analysis and Socially Shared Cognition," in L. Resnick,

J. Levine and S. Teasley (eds.), Perspectives on Socially Shared Cognition. (Washington, D.C.:

American Psychological Association, 1991), 150-171.

Emanuel A. Schegloff: "To Searle on Conversation: A Note in Return." in J. R. Searle et al., (On)

Searle on Conversation. (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1992), 113-128.

Emanuel A. Schegloff: "Repair After Next Turn: The Last Structurally Provided Defense of

Intersubjectivity in Conversation." American Journal of Sociology 97:5 (1992), 1295-1345.

Emanuel A. Schegloff: "In Another Context," in A. Duranti and C. Goodwin (eds.), Rethinking Context:

Language as an Interactive Phenomenon. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), 193-227.

Emanuel A. Schegloff: "Introduction," in Harvey Sacks: Lectures on Conversation, Volume 1, ed. by

G. Jefferson, with an Introduction by E. A. Schegloff (Oxford: Basil Blackwell,1992), ix-lxii.

Emanuel A. Schegloff: "Introduction," in Harvey Sacks: Lectures on Conversation, Volume 2, ed. by

G. Jefferson, with an Introduction by E. A. Schegloff (Oxford: Basil Blackwell,1992), ix-lii.

Emanuel A. Schegloff: "On Talk and Its Institutional Occasions," in P. Drew and J.C. Heritage (eds.),

Talk at Work (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), 101-134.

Emanuel A. Schegloff: ?Reflections on Quantification in the Study of Conversation,” Research on

Language and Social Interaction, 26:1, 1993, 99-128.

Emanuel A. Schegloff: "Telephone Conversation," In R.E. Asher (ed.), Encyclopedia of Language

and Linguistics, Volume 9 (Oxford: Pergammon Press, 1993), 4547-49

Emanuel A. Schegloff: ?Parties and Talking Together: Two Ways in Which Numbers Are Significant

for Talk-in-Interaction,” in P. ten Have and G. Psathas (eds.), Situated Order: Studies in Social

Organization and Embodied Activities (Washington, D.C: University Press of America, 1995), 31-42

Emanuel A. Schegloff: ?Discourse as an Interactional Achievement III: The Omnirelevance of Action,”

Research on Language and Social Interaction, 28:3, 1995, 185-211.

Emanuel A. Schegloff: "Confirming Allusions: Toward an Empirical Account of Action," American

Journal of Sociology, 102:1, 1996, 161-216.

Emanuel A. Schegloff: ?Some Practices for Referring to Persons in Talk-in-Interaction: A Partial

Sketch of a Systematics,” in B. Fox (ed.), Studies in Anaphora (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1996),

437-85.

Emanuel A. Schegloff: ?Issues of Relevance for Discourse Analysis: Contingency in Action,

Interaction and Co-Participant Context,” in E. H. Hovy and D. Scott (eds.), Computational and

Conversational Discourse: Burning Issues -- An Interdisciplinary Account (Heidelberg: Springer

Verlag,1996), 3-38.

Emanuel A. Schegloff, Elinor Ochs and Sandra Thompson: ?Introduction,” in E. Ochs, E. A. Schegloff

and S. Thompson (eds.), Interaction and Grammar. (Cambridge: Cambridge

University Press, 1996), 1-51.

Emanuel A. Schegloff: ?Turn Organization: One Intersection of Grammar and Interaction,” in

E. Ochs, E. A. Schegloff and S. Thompson (eds.), Interaction and Grammar. (Cambridge:

Cambridge University Press, 1996), 52-133.

Reprinted (in part) in:

Chris N. Candlin and Tim F. McNamara (eds), The Applied Linguistics Reader. London:

Routledge, 2001 frth

Elinor Ochs, Emanuel A. Schegloff and Sandra Thompson (eds.), Interaction and Grammar.

(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).

Emanuel A. Schegloff: "Whose Text? Whose Context?," Discourse & Society, 8:2, 1997, 165-187.

Emanuel A. Schegloff: "Third Turn Repair," in G. R. Guy, C. Feagin, D. Schiffrin and J. Baugh (eds.),

Towards a Social Science of Language: Papers in honor of William Labov. Volume 2: Social Interaction

and Discourse Structures (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1997), 31-40.

Emanuel A. Schegloff: "Practices and Actions: Boundary Cases of Other-Initiated Repair," Discourse

Processes 23:3, 1997, 499-545.

Emanuel A. Schegloff: "'Narrative Analysis' Thirty Years Later," Journal of Narrative and Life History

7:1-4, 1997, 97-106

Emanuel A. Schegloff: "Reply to Wetherell," Discourse & Society, 9:3, 1998, 457-460.

Emanuel A. Schegloff: "Body Torque." Social Research, 65:3, 1998, 535-596.

Emanuel A. Schegloff: "Reflections on Studying Prosody in Talk-in-Interaction," Language and

Speech, 41:3/4, 1998, 235-63.

Emanuel A. Schegloff,: "On Sacks on Weber on Ancient Judaism: Introductory Notes and

Interpretive Resources," Theory, Culture and Society, 16:1, 1999.

Emanuel A. Schegloff: "What Next?: Language and Social Interaction Study at the Century's Turn,"

Research on Language and Social Interaction, 32:1&2, 141-48, 1999.

Claus Heeschen and Emanuel A. Schegloff: "Agrammatism, Adaptation Theory, Conversation Analysis:

On the Role of so-called Telegraphic Style in Talk-in-Interaction," Aphasiology, 13, 1999, 365-

405.

Emanuel A. Schegloff: ?<Schegloff’s Texts’ as <Billig’s Data:’A Critical Reply,” Discourse

& Society, 10:4, 558-72, 1999.

Emanuel A. Schegloff: ?Naivete vs. Sophistication or Discipline vs. Self-Indulgence: A Rejoinder to

Billig,” Discourse & Society, 10:4, 577-82, 1999.

Emanuel A. Schegloff: ?Discourse, Pragmatics, Conversation, Analysis,” Discourse Studies 1:4,

405-35, 1999.

Emanuel A. Schegloff: "Das Wiederauftauchen des Unterdrückten," Psychotherapie und

Sozialwissenschaft; Zeitschrift für qualitative Forschung 2:1, 3-29, 2000,

Published simultaneously as:

?The Surfacing of the Suppressed,” in P. Glenn, C. LeBaron, and J. Mandelbaum (eds.),

Excavating the taken-for-granted: Studies in language and social interaction. A Festschrift in

honor of Robert Hopper, (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, frth.).

Emanuel A. Schegloff: "Overlapping Talk and the Organization of Turn-Taking for Conversation,"

Language in Society, 29:1, 1-63, 2000.

Emanuel A. Schegloff: "When 'Others' Initiate Repair," Applied Linguistics, 21:2, 205-243, 2000.

Emanuel A. Schegloff: "On Granularity," Annual Review of Sociology, 26:715-20, 2000.

Emanuel A. Schegloff. ?Beginning in the Telephone,” in J.E. Katz and M. Aakhus (eds.), Perpetual

Contact: Mobile communication, private talk, public performance. (Cambridge: Cambridge

University Press, 2001 frth).

Emanuel A. Schegloff. ?Opening Sequencing” in J.E. Katz and M. Aakhus (eds.), Perpetual Contact:

Mobile communication, private talk, public performance. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,

2001 forth).

Emanuel A. Schegloff: ?Accounts of Conduct in Interaction: Interruption, overlap and turn-taking,” in

J.H. Turner (ed.), Handbook of Sociological Theory. (New York: Plenum, 2001 frth.).

Emanuel A. Schegloff: “Reflections on Research on Telephone Conversation Openings: Issues of

Cross-Cultural Scope and Scholarly Exchange, Interactional Import and Consequences,” in

K.K. Luke and T.S. Pavlidou (eds.), Telephone Calls: Unity and diversity in conversational

structure across languages and cultures. (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, forthcoming).

Emanuel A. Schegloff: “On ESP Puns,” in P. Glenn, C. LeBaron, and J. Mandelbaum (eds.),

Excavating the taken-for-granted: Studies in language and social interaction. A Festschrift in

honor of Robert Hopper, (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, frth.).

Emanuel A. Schegloff: "Conversation Analysis and 'Communication Disorders'," in C. Goodwin (ed.),

The Situation of Language in Brain Damaged Patients: Conversation and language impairment.

(New York: Oxford University Press, to appear).

Claus Heeschen and Emanuel A. Schegloff: "Aphasic Agrammatism as Interactional Artifact and

Achievement," in C. Goodwin (ed.), The Situation of Language in Brain Damaged Patients:

Conversation and language impairment. (New York: Oxford University Press, to appear).