Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth

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Name (Latin)
Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth
Other forms of name
Kuhlen, Elizabeth Couper-
Date of birth
1943-11-26
Associated Language
eng
Gender
female
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 91605658
Wikidata: Q85464120
Library of congress: n 79146022
HAI10: 000077712
Sources of Information
  • Grammar in everyday talk, 2015:title page (Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen) back cover (Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen is a senior researcher associated with the Center of Excellence for Research on intersubjectivity in interaction at the University of Helsinki in Finland)
  • Her The prepositional passive in English, 1979:t.p. (Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen)
  • Cause, condition, concession, contrast, 2000:CIP t.p. (Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen) CIP data sheet (b. 11-26-1943)

Wikipedia description:

Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen (born 1943) is an American linguist and distinguished professor (emeritus) from the University of Helsinki. Couper-Kuhlen is regarded as an important figure in the development of interactional linguistics and the study of prosody in conversation, through a number of books co-edited with Margret Selting: the 1996 book Prosody in Conversation, the 2001 book Studies in Interactional Linguistics also co-edited with Selting, and the textbook Interactional Linguistics. Her book Building Responsive Action written together with Barbara Fox and Sandra Thompson received the best book award from the International Society for Conversation Analysis in 2018. Couper-Kuhlen is member of the editorial board of Research on Language and Social Interaction and has received an honorary doctorate from the University of Helsinki. For her 65th birthday, a conference and following book publication was dedicated to her.

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