Frederick Erickson
Frederick Erickson (Ph.D. Northwestern University, 1969) is George F. Kneller Professor of Anthropology of Education and Director of Research, Corinne A. Seeds University Elementary School in addition to his appointment in the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Erickson has research interests in the organization and conduct of face to face interaction, sociolinguistic discourse analysis, ethnographic research methods, study of social interaction as a learning environment, anthropology of education. His publications include (with J. J. Shultz) The counselor as gatekeeper: Social interaction in interviews. Academic Press, (1982), "When is a context?: Some issues and methods in the analysis of social competence" in M. Cole, Y. Engström, and O. Vasquez (Eds.) Mind, culture, and activity. Cambridge U. Press, (1997), "They know all the lines: Rhythmic organization and contextualization in a conversational listing routine." In P. Auer and A. di Luzio (Eds.) The contextualization of language. John Benjamins, (1992), "Appropriation of voice and presentation of self as a fellow physician: Aspects of a discourse of apprenticeship in medicine." In S. Sarangi and C. Roberts (Eds.) Talk, work, and institutional order. Mouton/de Gruyter, (1999), “Co-membership and wiggle room: Some implications of the study of talk for social theory.” In N. Coupland and S. Saranji (Eds.) Sociolinguistics and social theory. London: Longman/Pearson Education, (2001), “Some notes on the musicality of speech.” In. D. Tannen, (Ed.) Georgetown University roundtable on languages and linguistics 2001. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, (2002)
Key Words:
The organization and conduct of face to face interaction, sociolinguistic
discourse analysis, ethnographic research methods, study of social interaction
as a learning environment, anthropology of education.
