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Citations
26892
World Ranking
2488
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1210

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1998 - Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation
  • 1998 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1984 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Elinor Ochs is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields with a primary focus on social sciences and arts and humanities. Specific subfields include language and linguistics, linguistics and language, sociology and political science, gender studies, and education.

Their work addresses a range of main topics:

  • Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
  • Multilingual Education and Policy
  • Children's Rights and Participation
  • Gender, Feminism, and Media
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Linguistics and Discourse Analysis
  • Historical Linguistics and Language Studies

Ochs has contributed to several academic venues, with publications appearing in:

  • Annual Review of Anthropology
  • Langage et société
  • Gender and Language
  • Cahiers de littérature orale

Recent notable papers include:

  • "Thinking in Between Disciplines", 2022, Annual Review of Anthropology
  • "Ethical Blind Spots in Ethnographic and Developmental Approaches to the Language Gap Debate", 2020, Langage et société
  • "Talk labour and doing 'being neoliberal mother'", 2021, Gender and Language
  • "Jeu et développement du langage chez l'enfant à travers le cheminement scientifique d'Elinor Ochs", 2025, Cahiers de littérature orale

Frequent coauthors in their research include Tamar Kremer-Sadl, Tamar Kremer-Sadlik, and Aliyah Morgenstern.

Throughout their career, Elinor Ochs has been recognized with several awards:

  • Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation, 1998
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1998
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1984

Best Publications

  • Living Narrative: Creating Lives in Everyday Storytelling

    Elinor Ochs;Lisa Capps

  • Culture and Language Development: Language Acquisition and Language Socialization in a Samoan Village

    Elinor Ochs

  • Constructing Social Identity: A Language Socialization Perspective

    Elinor Ochs

  • Planned and Unplanned Discourse

    Elinor Ochs;Bambi B. Schieffelin

  • Interaction and grammar

    Elinor Ochs;Emanuel A. Schegloff;Sandra A. Thompson

  • Language Socialization across Cultures

    William A. Corsaro;Bambi B. Schieffelin;Elinor Ochs

  • Linguistic resources for socializing humanity.

    Elinor Ochs

  • Language acquisition and socialization: Three developmental stories and their implications

    Bambi Schieffelin;E. Ochs

  • Language has a heart

    Elinor Ochs;Bambi Schieffelin

  • Co-Construction: An Introduction

    Sally Jacoby;Elinor Ochs

  • The Handbook of Language Socialization

    Alessandro Duranti;Elinor Ochs;Bambi B. Schieffelin

  • Language Socialization Across Cultures

    Bambi B. Schieffelin;Elinor Ochs

  • Inclusion as Social Practice: Views of Children with Autism

    Elinor Ochs;Tamar Kremer-Sadlik;Olga Solomon;Karen Gainer Sirota

  • The cultural structuring of mealtime socialization.

    Elinor Ochs;Merav Shohet

  • Storytelling as a Theory-Building Activity.

    Elinor Ochs;Carolyn Taylor;Dina Rudolph;Ruth Smith

  • Interaction and grammar: “When I come down I'm in the domain state”: grammar and graphic representation in the interpretive activity of physicists

    Elinor Ochs;Patrick Gonzales;Sally Jacoby

  • Talking to children in Western Samoa

    Elinor Ochs

  • The Theory of Language Socialization

    Elinor Ochs;Bambi B. Schieffelin

  • Left-Dislocation in Italian Conversation

    Alessandro Duranti;Elinor Ochs

  • Acquiring conversational competence

    Elinor Ochs;Bambi B. Schieffelin

  • Culture and language development

    Elinor Ochs

Frequent Co-Authors

Alessandro Duranti
Alessandro Duranti University of California, Los Angeles
Emanuel A. Schegloff
Emanuel A. Schegloff University of California, Los Angeles
Rena L. Repetti
Rena L. Repetti University of California, Los Angeles
Sandra A. Thompson
Sandra A. Thompson University of California, Santa Barbara
Thomas N. Bradbury
Thomas N. Bradbury University of California, Los Angeles
Barbara Schneider
Barbara Schneider Michigan State University
Teresa L. McCarty
Teresa L. McCarty University of California, Los Angeles
William A. Corsaro
William A. Corsaro Indiana University

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