Emanuel Schegloff

Schegloff was born in a Jewish household in Brooklyn, New York and raised in Boston. He studied journalism at the Hebrew Teacher's College from 1953 to 1957 where he was awarded a Bachelor of Jewish Education (cum laude). He also had a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard College, where he studied 1954–58. He took a Master of Arts at University of California, Berkeley 1958–1963. He finished a PhD in 1967 and moved to Columbia University, where he was an assistant professor of sociology at the Teacher's College. In 1972, Schegloff moved back to California and started working at UCLA as an assistant professor of sociology. In 1996, he was promoted to distinguished professor of sociology, from 2010 emeritus. Schegloff died on May 23, 2024, at the age of 86. == Honours and memberships ==

Schegloff became a member of the Sociological Research Association in 1990 and was declared "Outstanding Scholar of the Year" by the Language and Social Interaction Division of the International Communication Association in 1995. In 2010, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Sociological Association. Schegloff was a member of the council of the American Sociological Association 1997–2000. He was a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences 1998–99 and a Guggenheim Fellow 1998–99. He was a member of the editorial board for Language in Society (1971–72), Behavioral and Brain Sciences (1979–1983), Sociological Theory (1981–83), Poetics Today (1979–1992 and later), Discourse Processes (from 1975), Journal of Pragmatics (from 1981) and the honorary editorial board of Discourse Studies (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: Cambridge University Press. ==References==