Gail Jefferson

Gail Jefferson ( born April 22, 1938 in Iowa City, † 21 February 2008 Rinsumageest, Netherlands) was an American linguist. It has shaped the development of conversation analysis, together with Emanuel Schegloff and Harvey Sacks.

She also recorded the system today often used for transcription of spoken language, especially is used in the English research. According to reports, Jefferson should have the first transcriptions on the instructions Sacks' designed and made ​​; he gave her tape recordings with the words " write times on what you hear ."

Works

  • Harvey Sacks, Emanuel Schegloff, Gail Jefferson: A Simplest systematics for the organization of turn-taking in conversation. In: Language, Vol 50 (1974 ), No. 4, pp. 696-735.
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