Emanuel (Manny) Schegloff passed away yesterday.

 Yesterday a giant in the field of conversation analysis passed away.  Manny Schegloff, along with Harvey Sacks and Gail Jefferson, worked to create and develop the field of CA, from an enterprise located at UCLA & UC-Irvine, to an international and interdisciplinary research perspective.   There is too much to say about the breath and depth of his intellect, so instead for now I'll just offer some links to his work. 

https://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/faculty/schegloff/

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=I0RXKHYAAAAJ&hl=en

P. S.   I need to add here a rather brilliant segment from an interview with Manny, which really captures that depth and breadth of his genius.  From Prevignano, C., & Thibault, P. J. (Eds.). (2003). Discussing conversation analysis: The work of Emanuel A. Schegloff. John Benjamins Publishing, pg. 38. 

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P. P. S.   Manny's comments, above, are now reminding me of a very poignant preface to an anniversary edition of Zen & the art of motorcycle maintenance by Robert Pirsig.   I'll find the quotation and add it here later on.   

Stanley Fish on language & meaning

Stanley Fish on language & meaning: 

"Before the words slide into their slots, they are just discrete items, pointing everywhere and nowhere. Once the words are nested in the places ‘ordained’ for them — ‘ordained’ is a wonderful word that points to the inexorable logic of syntactic structures — they are tied by ligatures of relationships to one another. They are subjects or objects or actions or descriptives or indications of manner, and as such they combine into... a meaning that one can contemplate, admire, reject, or refine.”

Stanley Fish, How to write a sentence (and how to read one), pg. 2 (Harper Press, 2011).