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About Elinor Ochs
- 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.In the USA, Professor Ochs has conducted research on a wide range of topics including the social construction of knowledge in a physics laboratory, sociality and autism, and the socialization of morality in family discourse.
- The last was conducted during her decade long tenure as the director for the Center on Everyday Lives of Families, supported by the Alfred P.
- Sloan Foundation’s Workplace, Workforce, and Working Families Program on Dual-Career Working Middle Class Families.
- In 1998, Professor Ochs was named a MacArthur Fellow for her contributions to the study of language.
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