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Elinor Ochs Keenan

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6

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Active since

1973

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University of Cambridge(Current)

University of Southern California

Elinor Ochs Keenan is an author at University of Cambridge specializing in language studies, discourse analysis, and linguistics.

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LanguageLinguisticsDiscourse AnalysisArtsPragmaticsConversation AnalysisEducationSemanticsChild LanguageChild Psychology

Publications per year

1973–2014

6

Publications

6

The universality of conversational postulates

Elinor Ochs Keenan · Language in Society · 1976 · 457 citations

Multilingualism, Linguistic Anthropology, Conversational Postulates +22

Conversational competence in children

Elinor Ochs Keenan · Journal of Child Language · 1974 · 270 citations

Turn-taking, Language Development, Education +23

Foregrounding Referents: A Reconsideration of Left Dislocation in Discourse

Elinor Ochs Keenan, Bambi B. Schieffelin · Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society · 2014 · 150 citations · Full text

Pragmatic Analysis, Rhetoric, Morphology (Linguistics) +21

Coherency in children's discourse

Elinor Ochs Keenan, Ewan Klein · Journal of Psycholinguistic Research · 1975 · 76 citations

Child Psychology, Discourse Structure, Children's Literature +6

A sliding sense of obligatoriness: The poly-structure of Malagasy oratory

Elinor Ochs Keenan · Language in Society · 1973 · 33 citations

Latin American Study, Linguistic Anthropology, Social Theory +18

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