Deborah Schiffrin

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Deborah Schiffrin

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Linguistics

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#505

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Deborah Schiffrin's Degrees

PhD Linguistics University of Texas at Austin
Masters Linguistics University of Texas at Austin
Bachelors Linguistics University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Deborah Sue Schiffrin was an American linguist who researched areas of discourse analysis and sociolinguistics, producing seminal work on the topic of English discourse markers. Born and raised in Philadelphia, she earned a B.A. in sociology from Temple University , an MA in sociology also from Temple University , and her PhD in linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania under the supervision of William Labov. Schiffrin taught at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and at the University of California in Berkeley California.

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Deborah Schiffrin's Published Works

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Approaches to Discourse (1997) (1128)
The Handbook of Discourse Analysis (2001) (881)
Narrative as self-portrait: Sociolinguistic constructions of identity (1996) (634)
Tense variation in narrative (1981) (382)
Meaning, form, and use in context : linguistic applications (1984) (344)
Jewish argument as sociability (1984) (330)
Discourse Markers: Language, Meaning, and Context (2005) (284)
Discourse markers: Temporal adverbs: now and then (1987) (240)
Meta-Talk: Organizational and Evaluative Brackets in Discourse (1980) (214)
Discourse and Identity Construction (2011) (202)
Discourse markers: Frontmatter (1987) (168)
CONVERSATIONAL COHERENCE: THE ROLE OF WELL (1985) (130)
Language change and variation (1989) (117)
Selves and identities in narrative and discourse (2007) (92)
In Other Words: Variation in Reference and Narrative (2006) (83)
Mother/Daughter Discourse in a Holocaust Oral History: “Because then You Admit that You’re Guilty” (2000) (75)
Functions of and in discourse (1986) (69)
Anaphoric then: aspectual, textual, and epistemic meaning (1992) (69)
How a story says what it means and does (1984) (65)
Conditionals as topics in discourse (1992) (62)
Discourse MarkersLanguage, Meaning, and Context (2015) (61)
Mother and friends in a Holocaust life story (2002) (59)
Handwork as Ceremony: The Case of the Handshake (1974) (49)
Multiple constraints on discourse options: A quantitative analysis of causal sequences∗ (1985) (48)
Telling Stories: Language, Narrative, and Social Life (2010) (48)
Discourse and Identity: From linguistic reference to social reality (2006) (46)
The Handbook of Discourse Analysis: Tannen/Discourse (2015) (43)
Crossing boundaries: The nexus of time, space, person, and place in narrative (2009) (40)
Between text and context: Deixis, anaphora, and the meaning of then (1990) (40)
We Knew That’s It: Retelling the Turning Point of a Narrative (2003) (37)
Discourse and Identity: Introduction (2006) (35)
Making a list (1994) (34)
Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics (2005) (32)
Discourse markers : semantic resource for the construction of conversation (1982) (28)
Towards a Social Science of Language: Papers in honor of William Labov. Volume 1: Variation and change in language and society (1996) (28)
Linguistics: The Cambridge Survey: Conversation analysis (1988) (27)
Towards a Social Science of Language: Papers in honor of William Labov. Volume 2: Social interaction and discourse structures (1997) (26)
Language and Public Memorial: `America's Concentration Camps' (2001) (22)
Theory and method in discourse analysis: what context for what unit? (1997) (20)
Sociolinguistics and Language Teaching: Interactional sociolinguistics (1995) (16)
Stories in Answer to Questions in Research Interviews (1997) (15)
LANGUAGE, experience and history: ‘What happened’ in World War II (2001) (11)
The transformation of experience, identity, and context (1997) (10)
The language of discourse: Connections inside and out (1990) (10)
Toward an empirical base in pragmatics (Review Article) (1987) (9)
Introduction to the volume (2007) (9)
Turn-initial variation: structure and function in conversation (1986) (8)
Discourse and Identity: Overview: theory, method and analysis (2006) (6)
Cohesion in Everyday Discourse: The Role of Paraphrase. Sociolinguistic Working Paper Number 97. (1982) (6)
In Other Words: Contents (2006) (5)
Introduction to the First Edition (2015) (4)
Discourse markers: Notes (1987) (4)
Discourse markers: Intonation and transcription conventions (1987) (4)
Discourse markers: Discourse markers: Contextual coordinates of talk (1987) (4)
Discourse markers: Information and participation: y'know and I mean (1987) (3)
Tales of Transgression: Negotiating the Moral Order in Oral Narratives (2010) (3)
Discourse markers: Questions: Why analyze discourse markers? (1987) (3)
In Other Words: List of figures (2006) (3)
Research talk on, for, and with social subjects (1993) (2)
Discourse and Identity: List of contributors (2006) (2)
Discourse Strategies@@@Language and Social Identity (1984) (2)
In Other Words: Variation (2006) (2)
Discourse markers: So and because : Markers of cause and result (1987) (1)
Lauri Carlson, Dialogue games. An approach to discourse analysis. Dordrecht, Holland and Boston: D. Reidel, 1982. Pp. xxiii + 317. (1985) (1)
Discourse markers: Well : Marker of response (1987) (1)
Discourse markers: Background: What is discourse? (1987) (1)
[The use of a new anabolic drug in pulmonary tuberculosis]. (1961) (1)
In Other Words: Preface (2006) (0)
[Intrapleural pneumothorax and its relation to antibiotics and chemotherapy in children]. (1956) (0)
APPLIED SOCIOLINGUISTICS . Peter Trudgill, ed. London: Academic Press, 1984. Pp. xiii + 271. $30.00. (1986) (0)
In Other Words: Who did what (again)? (2006) (0)
Erving Said That the Rigor and Formal Nature of Linguistics Could Add Status to the Just-Beginning Study of Social Interaction (2009) (0)
In Other Words: Jack Cohen's narrative about Joey Bishop's childhood prank (2006) (0)
[Total unilateral pulmonary agenesis]. (1957) (0)
Discourse markers: Prelude to analysis: Definitions and data (1987) (0)
[Results of a combination of therapeutic pneumothorax with antibiotics and chemotherapy; comparative study with therapeutic pneumothorax of the pre-chemo-antibiotic therapy era]. (1956) (0)
In Other Words: Reframing experience (2006) (0)
Discourse and Identity: The gendered self: becoming and being a man (2006) (0)
In Other Words: Redoing and replaying (2006) (0)
In Other Words: Transcription conventions for data excerpts (2006) (0)
Discourse and Identity: index (2006) (0)
In Other Words: Problematic referrals (2006) (0)
Telling Stories (0)
Discourse markers: Discourse connectives: and, but, or (1987) (0)
Discourse and Identity: Editors' introduction (2006) (0)
Discourse and Identity: References (2006) (0)
Discourse markers: Oh : Marker of information management (1987) (0)
In Other Words: Anticipating referrals (2006) (0)
Book reviews (1994) (0)
Conversation Analysis (1990) (0)
Conversation Analysis (1990) (0)
In Other Words: Four versions of Susan Beer's capture story (2006) (0)
[Plasmocytic sarcoma of the lung]. (1955) (0)
[Results of therapeutic pneumothorax associated with antibiotics and chemotherapy; comparative study with pneumothorax in the pre-chemo-antibiotic era]. (1956) (0)
[The association of nicotinaldehyde thiosemicarbazone and isoniazid in the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis in adults]. (1959) (0)
In Other Words: Reactive and proactive prototypes (2006) (0)
Linguistic Anthropology: From Etymology to Pragmatics: Metaphorical and Cultural Aspects of Semantic Structure. Eve Sweetser. (1992) (0)
[Decline of tuberculosis during the last 10 years]. (1952) (0)
Index to Volume 60 (1984) (2015) (0)
In Other Words: References (2006) (0)
Book reviews (1988) (0)
In Other Words: Referring sequences (2006) (0)
The MorfFl x Dictionary of Czech as a Source of Ling istic Data (2020) (0)
In Other Words: Retelling a story (2006) (0)
Discourse markers: References (1987) (0)
Discourse strategies By John J. Gumperz, and: Language and social identity Edited by John J. Gumperz (review) (2015) (0)

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