# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gail-jefferson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:01:22.995Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gail-jefferson"
name: "Gail Jefferson"
slug: "gail-jefferson"
description: "Gail Jefferson was an American sociologist with an emphasis in sociolinguistics. She was, along with Harvey Sacks and Emanuel Schegloff, one of the founders of the area of research known as conversation analysis (CA). She is remembered for the methods and notational conventions she developed for transcribing speech, the latter forming the Jefferson Transcription System. This is now used widely in CA research."
tagline: "American conversation analyst (1938–2008)"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1938-04-22"
deathDate: "2008-02-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.39
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.473362666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Gail Jefferson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%BA%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "غيل جيفرسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "جيل جيفرسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%98%D0%BB_%D0%8F%D0%B5%D1%84%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Гејл Џеферсон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gail_Jefferson"
    title: "Gail Jefferson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gail_Jefferson"
    title: "Gail Jefferson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q520177"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump