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Elinor Ochs

Anthropology

#171

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#259

Historical Rank

#96

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Elinor Ochs's Degrees

PhD Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Anthropology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Elinor Ochs is an American linguistic anthropologist, and Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at University of California, Los Angeles. Ochs has conducted fieldwork in Madagascar, Italy, Samoa and the United States of America on communication and interaction. Together with Bambi Schieffelin, Professor Ochs developed language socialization, a field of inquiry which examines the ways in which individuals become competent members of communities of practice to and through the use of language. Professor Ochs is also known for her contributions to applied linguistics and the theorization of narrative and family discourse.

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Elinor Ochs's Published Works

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Language acquisition and socialization: Three developmental stories and their implications (1984) (882)
Culture and Language Development: Language Acquisition and Language Socialization in a Samoan Village (1988) (775)
Constructing Social Identity: A Language Socialization Perspective (1993) (774)
Language Socialization across Cultures (1988) (710)
Living Narrative: Creating Lives in Everyday Storytelling (2001) (635)
Linguistic resources for socializing humanity. (1996) (573)
Interaction and grammar: Frontmatter (1996) (544)
Language has a heart (1989) (499)
Planned and unplanned discourse (1979) (415)
Co-Construction: An Introduction (1995) (410)
The cultural structuring of mealtime socialization. (2006) (325)
The Handbook of Language Socialization (2011) (313)
Language socialization across cultures: Contents (1987) (296)
Cultural psychology: Indexicality and socialization (1990) (295)
Storytelling as a Theory-Building Activity. (1992) (292)
Talking to children in Western Samoa (1982) (288)
Interaction and grammar: “When I come down I'm in the domain state”: grammar and graphic representation in the interpretive activity of physicists (1996) (277)
The Theory of Language Socialization (2011) (254)
Inclusion as Social Practice: Views of Children with Autism (2001) (250)
Family Narrative as Political Activity (1992) (212)
Constructing Panic: The Discourse of Agoraphobia (1996) (204)
Detective Stories At Dinnertime: Problem-Solving Through Co-Narration (1989) (193)
Autism and the Social World: An Anthropological Perspective (2004) (181)
Language socialization: An historical overview (2007) (172)
Living Narrative (2002) (168)
Responsibility in Childhood: Three Developmental Trajectories (2009) (166)
Interpretive Journeys: How Physicists Talk and Travel through Graphic Space (1994) (158)
Invited Forum: Bridging the “Language Gap” (2015) (139)
Limitations and transformations of habitus in Child-Directed Communication (2005) (110)
Left-dislocation in Italian conversation (1979) (107)
Acquiring conversational competence (1983) (101)
Language, Culture, and Society: The impact of language socialization on grammatical development (2006) (95)
Propositions across utterances and speakers (1979) (91)
Culture and language development (1988) (91)
Video Ethnography and Ethnoarchaeological Tracking. (2006) (81)
Fast-forward family : home, work, and relationships in middle-class America (2013) (76)
Experiencing language (2012) (72)
Language socialization across cultures: From feelings to grammar: a Samoan case study (1987) (68)
Opportunity for interaction? A naturalistic observation study of dual-earner families after work and school. (2009) (67)
Down to the wire: The cultural clock of physicists and the discourse of consensus (1997) (66)
Introduction: morality as family practice (2007) (66)
The microgenesis of competence: Methodology in language socialization (1996) (60)
Ergativity and Word Order in Samoan Child Language (1982) (55)
Interaction and grammar: Introduction (1996) (55)
Practical Logic and Autism (2007) (46)
Genitive Constructions and Agency in Samoan Discourse (1990) (43)
Introduction: Discourse and Autism (2004) (41)
Out of place: Narrative insights into agoraphobia (1995) (38)
Socialization through Language and Interaction: A Theoretical Introduction (1991) (37)
How Postindustrial Families Talk (2015) (32)
Positive and negative emotion in the daily life of dual-earner couples with children. (2013) (29)
Repertoires of Timekeeping in Anthropology1 (2002) (28)
Syncretic Literacy in a Samoan American Family (1997) (28)
The Impact of Language Socialization on Grammatical Development (2019) (25)
Corporeal Reflexivity and Autism (2015) (23)
Cultural Dimensions of Language Acquisition (1997) (23)
Constructing Panic (1995) (20)
Syncretic Literacy: Multiculturalism in Samoan American Families (1996) (20)
Mothers ' role in the everyday reconstruction of ' ' Father knows best " 1 (2003) (19)
Language Acquisition and Socialization: Three Developmental Stories and Their Implications. Sociolinguistic Working Paper Number 105. (1982) (17)
Language, gender, and sex in comparative perspective: The impact of stratification and socialization on men's and women's speech in Western Samoa (1987) (16)
Misunderstanding Children (2003) (15)
Narrative in Everyday Life (2011) (14)
3. Coming Together at Dinner: A Study of Working Families (2017) (9)
Variation and Error: A Sociolinguistic Approach to Language Acquisition in Samoa (2017) (8)
Ethical Blind Spots in Ethnographic and Developmental Approaches to the Language Gap Debate (2020) (7)
Discursive Underpinnings of Family Coordination (2015) (7)
Syncretic Literacy: Multiculturalism in Samoan American Families. Research Report No. 16. (1996) (6)
Language socialization across cultures: Introduction (1987) (4)
Chapter 12. Narrative Lessons (2007) (4)
Talk labour and doing ‘being neoliberal mother’ (2021) (3)
Defining Our Field: Unity in Diversity (1990) (3)
INTRODUCTION TO VOLUME 8: LANGUAGE SOCIALIZATION (2019) (2)
Thinking in Between Disciplines (2022) (1)
Introduction (1989) (1)
Acquisition of Genitive Agents in Samoan. (1989) (1)
Chapter 6. Constructing Social Identity: A Language Socialization Perspective (2008) (1)
Narrative: A User's Manual (2002) (1)
Children Learning by Observing and Pitching In: Commentary (2014) (1)
Book reviews (2008) (0)
A Socia-Cultural Perspective (2012) (0)
Pragmática : conceptos claves (2000) (0)
Front & Back Matter (2012) (0)
FROM INSCRIPTION TO INCORPORATION: THE BODY IN LITERACY STUDIES Introduction (2009) (0)
Candidates for Executive Committee Member‐at‐large (1989) (0)
Corporeal Reflexivity and Autism (2015) (0)
Interaction and grammar: Transcription conventions (1996) (0)

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