Department of Applied Linguistics, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095
Current Position
Professor of Applied Linguistics, UCLA, Los Angeles
Previous Positions (selected)
1973-74 Assistant Lecturer in Linguistics, University of Cambridge
1974-79 Assistant Professor of Linguistics, University of Southern California
1979-84 Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Southern California
1984-90 Professor of Linguistics, University of Southern California
Education
1966 B.A. cum laude The George Washington University (Anthropology)
1974 M.A. University of Cambridge (Honorary)
1974 Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania (Anthropology)
Professional Activities/Honors (Selected)
2001 President-Elect Society for Linguistic Anthropology
2000 Honorary Doctorate, Linkoping University, Sweden
1998-03 John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellow
1998 American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow
1996 Helsinki University Rector’s Medal of Distinctive Scholarship
1996 President, American Association for Applied Linguistics
1984-5 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow
Foreign Languages
Italian, French, Samoan, Malagasy
Related Publications (Selected)
2001. Ochs, E., Kremer-Sadlik, T., Solomon, O. & Sirota, K.”Inclusion as social
practice: Views of children with autism.” Social Development. Special Issue (A. Imbens-Bailey, ed.).
1998 Duranti, A. & Ochs, E. “Syncretic literacy” in Discourse tools, and reasoning: Essays on situated cognition, ed. by L.B. Resnick, R. Saljo, C. Pontecorvo, & B. Burge. Berlin: Springer, pp 169-202.
1996 “The microgenesis of competence: Methodology in language socialization.” (with B. Schieffelin) In Social interaction, social context and language: Essays in honor of Susan Ervin-Tripp, ed by D.Slobin, J. Gerhardt, A. Kyratzis, & Guo Jiansheng. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
1996 Ochs, E. “Linguistic resources for socializing humanity.” Rethinking linguistic relativity, ed. by J. Gumperz & S. Levinson. Cambridge University Press. pp407-438.
1995 “Change and Tradition in Literacy Instruction in a Samoan American Community” (with A. Duranti). Educational Foundations, vol 9, no 4, pp. 57-74.
1984 “Language acquisition and socialization: Three developmental stories.” In R. Shweder & R. LeVine (Eds.) Culture theory: Mind, self, and emotion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Significant Publications (Selected)
2001 Living Narrative (with L. Capps). Harvard University Press.
1995: Capps, L & Ochs, E. Constructing panic: The discourse of agoraphobia. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
1988 Culture and language development: Language acquisition and language socialization in a Samoan village. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1986 Language socialization across cultures (with B. Schieffelin , co-editor). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1979 Developmental pragmatics. (with B. Schieffelin, co-editor), New York: Academic Press.
Current Research Support
1. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Center Grant. 2001-2004
Project Description: Center on the Everyday Lives of Families: A Sloan Center on Working Families ($3.6 million)
2. The Spencer Foundation for Educational Research. 2000-2003
Project Description: Socializing Autistic Children into the Rules of School and Family Life ($506,000).