Deborah Schiffrin
Deborah Sue Schiffrin (May 30, 1951 – July 20, 2017)[1] was an American linguist who researched areas of discourse analysis and sociolinguistics, producing seminal work on the topic of English discourse markers.[2][3][4]
Born and raised in Philadelphia,[5] she earned her PhD. in Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania (1982) under the supervision of William Labov,[6] after earning BA and MA degrees in Sociology from Temple University.[7] At the time of her death, she was Professor of Linguistics at the University of Georgetown.[8]
Over her career at Georgetown, Schiffrin supervised 44 successful Ph.D. dissertations and was a reader on 35 more.[9] She served on the faculty at Georgetown University from 1982 to 2013 teaching sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, and pragmatics, serving as chair of the department from 2003-09.
Schiffrin served on the editorial board of academic journals including Language in Society, Journal of Pragmatics, Language and Communication, Discourse Processes, Pragmatics, Discourse Studies, and Storyworlds,[10] as well as the John Benjamins Publishing Company's academic book series Pragmatics and Beyond New Series.[11]
Death
Dr. Schiffrin died on July 20, 2017, aged 66. She was survived by her husband, Dr. Louis Scavo, and their children, David and Laura Scavo, of Bethesda, Maryland.[12]
Publications (selected)
- Schiffrin, Deborah. 1980. Meta-talk: Organizational and evaluative brackets in discourse. Sociological Inquiry 50(3–4), pp. 199–236.
- Schiffrin, D. 1981. Tense variation in narrative. Language, pp. 45–62.
- Schiffrin, D. 1984. Jewish argument as sociability. Language in society 13(3), pp. 311–335.
- Schiffrin, D. 1985a. Conversational coherence: the role of well. Language, pp. 640–667.
- Schiffrin, D. 1985b. Everyday argument: The organization of diversity in talk. Handbook of discourse analysis 3, pp. 35–46.
- Schiffrin, D. 1986. Functions of and in discourse. Journal of Pragmatics 10(1), pp. 41–66.
- Schiffrin, D. 1988. Discourse markers [13][14]
- Fasold, Ralph and Deborah Schiffrin, eds. 1989. Linguistic Change and Variation, benjamins.com; accessed July 30, 2017.
- Schiffrin, D. 1990. The management of a co-operative self during argument: The role of opinions and stories. Conflict talk. pp. 241–59.
- Schiffrin, D. 1996a. Interactional sociolinguistics. Sociolinguistics and language teaching 4. pp. 307–28.
- Schiffrin, D. 1996b. Narrative as self-portrait: Sociolinguistic constructions of identity. Language in society 25(2). 167–203.
- Schiffrin, D. 1998. Approaches to discourse. Journal of Pragmatics 3(29). 355–359.
- Schiffrin, D. 2001. Discourse markers: Language, meaning, and context. The handbook of discourse analysis 1. 54–75.
- Schiffrin, D. 2006. In other words: Variation in reference and narrative, vol 21, Cambridge University Press.
- De Fina, Anna, Deborah Schiffrin & Michael Bamberg. 2006. Discourse and identity, vol 23. Cambridge University Press
- Bamberg, Michael, Anna De Fina & Deborah Schiffrin. 2007. Selves and identities in narrative and discourse, vol 9. John Benjamins Publishing.
- Bamberg, Michael, Anna De Fina & Deborah Schiffrin. 2011. Discourse and identity construction. Handbook of identity theory and research, pp. 177–99, Springer Publishing.
- Tannen, Deborah, Heidi E. Hamilton & Deborah Schiffrin. 2015. The handbook of discourse analysis, John Wiley & Sons.
References
- ↑ "Deborah Sue Schiffrin: View Obituary".
- ↑ Simone Müller, 2005. Discourse Markers in Native and Non-native English Discourse. John Benjamins. p. 29.
- ↑ Claudia Marcela Chapetón Castro. “The Use and Functions of Discourse Markers in EFL Classroom Interaction” [Los usos y las funciones de los marcadores del discurso en la interacción en el aula de inglés como lengua extranjera] PROFILE, Volume 11, Issue 1, p. 57-77 (2009).
- ↑ Lieven Buysse, 2010. Discourse Markers in the English of Flemish Universit Students. In, Witzcak-Plisiecka, Iwona (Ed.), Pragmatic Perspectives on Language and Linguistics, Vol. 1: Speech Actions in Theory and Applied Studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, p. 461.
- ↑ Alexandra Johnston, "Deborah Schiffrin", The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics, November 5, 2012.
- ↑ DEBORAH, SCHIFFRIN (July 30, 1982). "DISCOURSE MARKERS: SEMANTIC RESOURCE FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF CONVERSATION". Repository.upenn.edu. Retrieved August 2, 2017.
- ↑ "Deborah Schiffrin profile". Faculty.georgetown.edu. Retrieved 2017-07-30.
- ↑ "Research". Faculty.georgetown.edu. Retrieved 2017-07-30.
- ↑ "Deborah Schiffrin CV". Faculty.georgetown.edu. Retrieved 2017-07-30.
- ↑ Fabula, Équipe de recherche. "Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies". Fabula.org. Retrieved July 30, 2017.
- ↑ "The Dynmaics of Language Use" (PDF). Npu.edu.ua. Retrieved 2017-07-30.
- ↑ "In Memoriam: Deborah Schiffrin". Linguistic Society of America. July 21, 2017. Retrieved August 3, 2017.
- ↑ Schiffrin, Deborah (26 February 1988). "Discourse Markers". Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 30 July 2017 – via Google Books.
- ↑ "Change of Subject: I mean to say...". Blogs.chicagotribune.com. Retrieved 30 July 2017.
External links
- Notice of death and
- Profile, georgetown.edu; accessed July 30, 2017.
- Amazon page