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 1998, Professor Ochs was named a MacArthur Fellow for her contributions to the study of language.

Awards 2000 Honorary Doctorate, Linkoping University, Sweden 1998 MacArthur Fellows Program 1996 Helsinki University Rector's Medal of Distinctive Scholarship 1984 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow 1973 New Hall, University of Cambridge Fellow 1973 Honorary master's degree, University of Cambridge 1966 Phi Beta Kappa

Works The Handbook of Language Socialization, Editors, Alessandro Duranti, Elinor Ochs, Bambi B. Schieffelin, Malden, MA:Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. Living narrative: creating lives in everyday storytelling, Authors Elinor Ochs, Lisa Capps, Harvard University Press, 2001, Constructing panic: the discourse of agoraphobia, Authors Lisa Capps, Elinor Ochs, Harvard University Press, 1997, Interaction and grammar, Editors Elinor Ochs, Emanuel A. Schegloff, Sandra A. Thompson, Cambridge University Press, 1996, Culture and language development: Language acquisition and language socialization in a Samoan village, Elinor Ochs, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Language socialization across cultures, Editors Bambi B. Schieffelin, Elinor Ochs, Cambridge University Press, 1986, Acquisition of conversational competence, Authors Elinor Ochs, Bambi B. Schieffelin, London: Routledge, 1983, Kegan and Paul Developmental pragmatics, Editors Elinor Ochs, Bambi Schieffelin, New York: Academic Press, 1979.