Emanuel Schegloff
Linguist

Emanuel Schegloff

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Emanuel Abraham Schegloff (born 1937 in 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.