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Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen
American linguist
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[1] and the study of prosody in conversation,[2][3] through a number of books co-edited with Margret Selting: the 1996 book Prosody in Conversation,[4] the 2001 book Studies in Interactional Linguistics also co-edited with Selting,[5] and the textbook Interactional Linguistics.[6] 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.[7]
Couper-Kuhlen is member of the editorial board of Research on Language and Social Interaction[8] and has received a honorary doctorate from the University of Helsinki.[1] For her 65th birthday, a conference and following book publication was dedicated to her.[9][10]