IRSP Faculty Affiliate Profile:
Emanuel A. Schegloff
Department of Sociology; Department of Applied Linguistics
264 Haines Hall
Phone: (310) 825-1719
Email:
Webpage: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/faculty/schegloff/

Research:
For me, direct interaction between persons is the primordial site of sociality. I am interested in exploring what we can learn about any of social science's traditional concerns through the detailed naturalistic study of interaction. In the course of pursuing this goal through the close study of (audio and/or video) recorded episodes of all manner of naturally occurring interaction, it has turned out that we can also discover previously unrecognized concerns for social science, and ones which appear to be central to the organization of conduct in interaction and of persons' experience of it. This mode of studying interaction ends up as an instrument for studying a broad range of topics in sociology and related disciplines. Among these topics, relationships figure in a major way, for one of the principal design features of interaction is "recipient design," that is, designing one’s talk for its recipient, in which one's relationship to recipient can not but loom large.

Selected Publications:

Schegloff, Emanuel A. 2007. "A tutorial on membership categoreization." Journal of Pragmatics 39, 462-482.

Schegloff, Emanuel A. 2007. Sequence Organization in Interaction: A Primer in Conversation Analysis I. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.

Hacohen, Gonen and Schegloff, Emanuel A. 2006. "On the Preference for Minimization in Referring to Persons: Evidence from Hebrew conversation." Journal of Pragmatics 38, 1305-1312.

Schegloff, Emanuel A. 2006. "Interaction: The infrastructure for social institutions, the natural ecological niche for language, and the arena in which culture is enacted." In N. J. Enfield and S. C. Levinson (Eds.), Roots of Human Sociality: Culture, cognition and interaction (pp. 70-96) London: Berg.

Please also see website: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/faculty/schegloff/

Selected Courses:
Sociology 244 ABC (Conversational Structures)
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