Emanuel Abraham Schegloff (born 1937 in New York) is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of California at Los Angeles. Along with his collaborators Harvey Sacks and Gail Jefferson, Schegloff is regarded as the creator of the field of Conversation Analysis.

Life

Schegloff studied journalism at the Hebrew Teachers College from 1953 to 1957 and was awarded a Bachelor of Journalism at the end of his studies there.