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2 unusual facts about Gail Jefferson


Alexa Hepburn

She has become expert in transcription and has developed Gail Jefferson's basic system for transcribing talk to encompass phenomena associated with crying and upset (sobbing, sniffing, tremulous delivery).

Emanuel Schegloff

With Harvey Sacks and Gail Jefferson, Schegloff was one of the principal creators of the field of Conversation Analysis.


Harvey Sacks

This publication project was instigated largely by David Sudnow and Gail Jefferson, colleagues and students of Sacks at Berkeley, UCLA and Irvine, and includes an introduction by Emanuel Schegloff.

John Heritage

At UCLA he joined Emanuel Schegloff, one of the founders of conversation analysis (alongside Harvey Sacks and Gail Jefferson).


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