Emanuel Schegloff

Emanuel A. Schegloff is professor of sociology with a joint appointment in applied linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Educated at Harvard and the University of California, Berkeley, he has taught at Columbia University as well as UCLA. His interests center on the naturalistic study of interaction and what we can learn about humans and the organization of social life and experience from it. A faculty participant in the Communication Studies Program at UCLA, and is affiliated with the Center for Language, Interaction, and Culture there, of which he was a co-founder.

Key Words:
Conversation analysis, talk-in-interaction, repair, sequence organization, turn-taking in conversation