Deborah Schiffrin
American linguist (1951–2017) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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]
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Born and raised in Philadelphia,[5] she earned a B.A. in sociology from Temple University (1972),[6] an MA in sociology also from Temple University (1975),[7] and her PhD in linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania (1982) under the supervision of William Labov.[8] Schiffrin taught at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and at the University of California in Berkeley California.[9]
Throughout her career, Schiffrin wrote four books, edited five books, published over 51 articles and book chapters,[9] and supervised 44 successful Ph.D. dissertations, plus acted as a reader on 35 more.[10] 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 to 2009.[6] As department chair, Schiffrin designed the department's Masters in Language and Communication program.[6]
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,[11] as well as the John Benjamins Publishing Company's academic book series Pragmatics and Beyond New Series.[12]
From personal words spoken with Alexandra Johnston, Schiffrin stated that the three main influential people of her academic career were, Noam Chomsky, William Labov, and Erving Goffman.[9] Thus, her areas of interest included sociolinguistics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, language interaction, narrative analysis, grammar in interaction, language and identity, and discourse and history.[9] Her expertise however lay within discourse markers.[9]