DEBORAH SCHIFFRIN EARNED DEGREES Ph.D.

, Linguistics, 1982 University of Pennsylvania Dissertation title: Discourse markers Dissertation advisor: William Labov M.A., Sociology, 1975 Temple University B.A., Sociology, 1972 Temple University ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL HISTORY ACADEMIC HONORS Senior Faculty Research Grant, Georgetown University, Fall 2000 Research Fellowship, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Multiple interviews with Holocaust survivors, Fall 2000 Visiting Researcher, University of California, Berkeley, 1991- 1992 Recipient, National Science Foundation Research Grant (Principal Investigator), Topic related variation: A Sociolinguistic analysis, 1989- 1991 Recipient, Georgetown University Graduate School Summer Research Grant, Summer 1984, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1995, 2006 Recipient, Georgetown University Faculty of Languages and Linguistics Summer Research Grant, 1998, 2000 TEACHING EXPERIENCE Professor, Linguistics, Georgetown University, 1996- present Associate Professor, Linguistics, Georgetown University, 1988- 1996 Associate Professor (Visiting), Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley, 1992- 1993 Assistant Professor, Linguistics, Georgetown University, 1982- 1988 Faculty, Linguistic Society of America Institute Stanford University, Summer 1987 Georgetown University, Summer 1985 PUBLICATIONS BOOKS: AUTHORED (forthcoming) Language, text and talk Oxford: Basil Blackwell (2006) In other words: Variation in reference and narrative Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1994 Approaches to discourse Oxford: Basil Blackwell [2nd edition, forthcoming] 1987 Discourse markers Cambridge: Cambridge University Press BOOKS: EDITED (2006) Discourse and Identity (with Anna DeFina and Michael Bamberg, Cambridge University Press

2001 Handbook of discourse analysis (Senior editor, with Heidi Hamilton and Deborah Tannen) Oxford: Basil Blackwell 1997 Toward a social science of language (with John Baugh, Crawford Feagin, and Gregory Guy) Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 1988 Variation and change in language (with Ralph Fasold) Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 1984 Meaning, form, and use in context: Linguistic Applications. Georgetown University Round Table on Language and Linguistics, Washington DC: Georgetown University Press. ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS IN EDITED VOLUMES (2006) From Linguistic reference to social identity, in Discourse and Identity (above) (2006) Discourse, in J. Connor-Linton and Ralph Fasold (Eds.) Introduction to Linguistics. Cambridge :University Press. (2006) Theory and method in discourse marker research: Revisiting and. In Kerstin Fischer (Ed.), Approaches to Discourse Particles. Elsevier. (2004) Discourse analysis. In N. Dittmar and P. Trudgill (Ed.) Handbook of Sociolinguistics. Mouton: de Gruyter. (2004) Discourse. In N. Dittmar and P. Trudgill (Ed.) Handbook of Sociolinguistics. Mouton: de Gruyter. (2003) Discourse markers. Entry in Oxford Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Oxford: University Press. (2003) Linguistics and oral history: The discourse connection. In D. Tannen (Ed.), Discourse and Beyond, Washington D.C: Georgetown University Press. (2003) We knew thats it: Retelling the turning point of a narrative of danger. Discourse Studies. (2002) Mother and friends in a Holocaust survivor oral history. Language in Society 31 (3): 309- 354. (2001) Language, experience and history: What happened in World War II. Journal of Sociolinguistics 5 (3): 323- 352. (2001a) Language and public memorial: Americas concentration camps. Discourse and Society 12: 505- 534. (2001) Discourse markers: Language meaning and context In Deborah Schiffrin, Deborah Tannen and Heidi Hamilton (Eds.) Handbook of Discourse analysis. Oxford: Basil Blackwell 2000 Mother/daughter discourse in a Holocaust oral history Narrative Inquiry 10(1), 1- 44. 1998 Stories as answers to questions in research interviews. Journal of Narrative and Life History. 1997 Theory and method in discourse analysis: What context for what unit? Language and Communication, Vol 17, No. 2, pp. 75- 92. 1997 The transformation of experience, identity and context. In John Baugh, Crawford Feagin, Gregory Guy, and Deborah Schiffrin (Eds.) Toward a social science of language. Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 1996 Narrative as self portrait: The sociolinguistic construction of identity. Language in Society 25 (2) 1995 Interactional sociolinguistics. In S. MacKay and N. Hornberger (Eds.) Sociolinguistics and languag teaching. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1996 Discourse analysis and pragmatics.

In Hans Goebl et. al. (Eds.) Handbook of linguistics and communication science. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Company. 1994 The textual and contextual basis of discourse. Semiotica 102: 1/2, pp. 101- 24 1994 Making a list. Discourse processes 17/3, pp. 377- 405. 1993 Speaking for another in sociolinguistic interviews. In D. Tannen (Ed.) Framing in discourse. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 231- 59. 1993 Research talk on, for, and with subjects. Peer commentary on Cameron (et. al.) Ethics, advocacy and empowerment. Language and communication 13 (2), pp. 133- 6. 1992 Gender displays among family and friends. In Kira Hall, Mary Bucholtz and Birch Moonwomon (Eds.) Locating Power. Proceedings of the Second Berkeley Women and Language Conference, 515-27. 1992 Anaphoric then: Aspectual, textual and epistemic meaning. Linguistics (30: 4), pp. 753- 792. 1991 Conditionals as topics in discourse. Linguistics (30: 1), 165- 97. Special issue, on Topic- From grammar to discourse, edited by N.Dittmar 1991 Discourse markers. In W. Bright (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Oxford: University Press. 1991 Conversational analysis Annual Review of Applied Linguistics 1991 The proximal/distal axis in discourse. In T. Janssen (Ed.) The function of tense in texts. Amsterdam: Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences. 1990 Between text and context: Deixis, anaphora and the meaning of then. Text (10: 3), pp. 245- 70. 1990 The management of a cooperative self in argument: The role of opinions and stories. In A. Grimshaw (Ed.) Conflict talk. Cambridge: University Press pp. 241- 259. Reprinted in J. Corner and J. Hawthorn (Eds.), Communication studies: A reader. Edward Arnold 1990 Inside and outside of discourse.Text 10: 1/2. pp. 97- 100. 1990 The principle of intersubjectivity in conversation and communication. Semiotica 80: 121- 51. 1988 Conversation analysis. In F. Newmeyer (Ed.) Linguistics: The Cambridge Survey.Cambridge: University Press, pp. 251- 276 1988 Sociolinguistic approaches to discourse: Topic and reference in narrative. K. Fererra et. al. (Eds) Linguistic contact and variation. Austin: Univeristy of Texas Press, 1- 28. 1987 Discovering the context of an utterance. Linguistics (25: 1), pp. 11- 32. 1987 Language, paralanguage, and kinesics: Systems and structures. Semiotica 65 (3/4), pp. 359-371. 1987 Toward an empirical base in pragmatics. Review article on Stephen Levinson, Pragmatics (Cambridge U. Press). Language in Society 16 (3), 381-395. 1986 Turn-initial variation: Structure and function in conversation. In D. Sankoff (Ed.) Diversity and Diachrony. Philadelphia: John Benjamin Press, pp. 365-380. 1986 The functions of and in discourse. Journal of Pragmatics. 10 (1), pp. 41-66. 1985 Everyday argument. In Teun van Dijk (Ed.) Handbook of discourse analysis, Volume 4: Discourse and Dialogue. London: Academic Press, pp. 35-46. 1985 Conversational coherence: the role of well. Language 61 (3), pp. 640-667. 1985 Multiple constraints on discourse options: A Quantitative analysis of causal sequences. Discourse Processes 8 (3), pp. 281-303.

1984 Jewish argument as sociability. Language in Society 13 (3), pp. 311-335. 1984 How a story says what it means and does. Text 4 (4), pp. 133-146. 1982 Cohesion in everyday discourse: The Role of paraphrase. Texas Working Papers in Sociolinguistics, 97. Austin, Texas. 1981 Tense variation in narrative. Language 57 (1), pp. 45-62. 1980 Meta-talk: Organizational and evaluative brackets in discourse. Sociological Inquiry 50 (3/4), pp. 199-236. Special issue, D. Zimmerman and C. West (Eds.) Language and social interaction. 1980 Using talk to organize talk. Penn Review of Linguistics (4), pp. 99-109. 1977 Opening encounters. American Sociological Review 42 (4), pp. 671-91. 1974 Handwork as ceremony: The case of the handshake. Semiotica 12 (3), pp. 189-202. Reprinted in A. Kendon (Ed.) Nonverbal communication, interaction, and gesture. The Hague: Mouton, pp. 237- 250. BOOK REVIEWS: AUTHORED 1992 Eve Sweetser, From etymology to pragmatics. American Anthropologist. 1986 Peter Trudgill (Ed.) Applied Sociolingusitics. Studies in second language acquisition. 8 (2). 213- 214. 1985 Lauri Carlson, Dialogue Games. Language in Society. 14 (1) pp. 98-100. 1984 John Gumperz, Discourse Strategies, Language and Social Identity. Language 60 (4) 1983 Allen Grimshaw, Language as social resource. Journal of communication 33 (2) 1983 Norman McQuown, Language education and culture. Journal of communication 33 1981 Wallace Chafe (Ed.), The Pear Stories. Language 57 (4) pp. 959-963. BOOK NOTES (AUTHORED) 1982 Thomas Kochman, Black and White Styles in Conflict. Language 59 (2) p. 456. 1982 John Lyons, Language, meaning, and context. Language 59 (2) p. 441. SPEECHES AND ADDRESSES INVITED ADDRESSES 2007 2007 Old Languages in New stories, Transcending Boundaries: Jewish Languages, Identities and Cultures, Georgetown University; Society for the Study of Narrative, International Meeting, Washington D.C. The local and global in Holocaust oral histories. Georgetown Linguistic Society: Language and Globablization. Panel on Transnational Discourse. Georgetown

2007* 2005 Saying it again. Goldtrap Talk in Humanities, Iowa State University 2004 Life, language and the pursuit of narrative. LISO, U California, Santa Barbara 2003 Changing participation frameworks in a retold narrative. Panel on Positioning (organized by Michael Bamberg) at American Association of Applied Linguistics, Annual Conference, Washington D.C. 2003 Redoing structure to retell a story. Panel on Discourse and Grammar (organized by

Deborah Tannen), Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2001 Language and history: The Narrative connection. Georgetown University Roundtable on Languages and Linguistics. 2000 A linguistic approach to oral histories. Fellows Seminar, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 2000 The past and future of discourse analysis. Plenoquium at NWAVE XXVIII, East Lansing, Michigan 1999 Narrative and memory in Holocaust discourse. Conference on Narrative and Memory, Georgetown University. 1998 Identity in a Holocaust survivors life story Panel on Language and Jewish identity, AAAL, Seattle Washington 1997 Locating `there` in language, text, and interaction. - University of Southern California Linguistics colloquium - Keynote address NWAVE XXVI, Quebec City, Canada 1996 Participation frameworks in argument. Georgetown Linguistics Society II 1996 The interactive construction of space in discourse. Discourse, language and conceptual structure II, SUNY Buffalo. 1995 Narrative as self-portrait. Georgetown University Linguistics Society I, Washington D.C. 1993 Genre and topic. Stanford University, Linguistics Colloquium. 1993 The transformation of experience and identity in narrative. University of Colorado, Boulder, Linguistics Colloquium. 1992 Deixis and topic in discourse. University of California, Berkeley, Linguistics Colloquium. 1992 Sociolinguistic studies of narrative. A Quarter century retrospective in honor of William Labovs Social Stratification of English in New York City Annual Meeting of American Dialect Society Tribute to William Labov. Philadelphia PA 1992/1991 Everyday descriptions: The structure of lists in discourse. -University of California, Berkeley, Cognitive Science Colloquium -XEROX Parc, Palo Alto, CA -University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Linguistics Colloquium 1991 Clause order and discourse structure. University of Delaware, Linguistics 1991 Approaches to topic in discourse. Keynote speaker at 26th Annual Mid-America Linguistics Conference, Oklahoma. 1990 Variation in anaphoric then. Stanford University, Linguistics Colloquium. University of California, Davis, Linguistics Colloquium. 1990 The proximal/distal temporal axis. Northwestern University, Linguistics Colloquium. 1987 Sociolinguistic approaches to discourse: Toward a synthesis and expansion. Keynote Address at New Ways of Analyzing Variation XVI. University of Texas, Austin, Texas.

1985 The work of our words: From meaning to action. "Vital Signs" Series in Semiotics. Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD 1985 Framing truth and sincerity in argument. Panel on "Frame Analysis (organized by Bambi Schieffelin) American Anthropological Association Meetings, Washington D.C. 1985 The empirical basis of discourse pragmatics. Ferguson-Greenberg Lecture Series in Sociolinguistics and Language Universals. Stanford University 1984 Pragmatic coordinators of talk. University of Pennsylvania, Linguistics Colloquium. 1982 Some semantic and pragmatic functions of discourse markers. Washington Linguistics Society, Washington D.C. 1981 Some relationships between discourse order and coherence. University of Pennsylvania, Cognitive Science Colloquium

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS 2000 Intertextuality and identity in a Holocaust life story. Panel on Language and immigration, International Sociolinguistics Conference, Bristol, England 1994 Sociolinguistic interviews as discourse. New Ways of Analyzing variation XXV, Stanford University. 1992 Gender displays among family, friends, and neighbors. Language and women: Locating Power. University of California, Berkeley. 1990 Variation in the anaphoric use of then. New Ways of Analyzing Variation XIX, University of PA. 1988 The meaning and use of then. Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics, Washington D.C. 1984 Oh and the management of information. New Ways of Analyzing Variation XIII 1983 The conversational context of pragmatic options. New Ways of Analyzing Variation XII, Universite de Montreal. 1982 Modes of argument. American Anthropological Association Meetings, Washington D.C. 1982 Multiple constraints on discourse options. New Ways of Analyzing Variation XI, Washington, DC. 1981 Cohesion in everyday discourse. Linguistic Society of America Meetings. New York, NY 1981 Accountability in discourse analysis. New Ways of Analyzing Variation X, University of PA 1980 Making the point. American Anthropological Association Meetings. Washington D.C.. 1980 Using talk to organize talk. University of PA Annual Linguistic Colloquium, Philadelphia, PA. 1979 Meta-talk as a strategy in argument. American Anthropological Association Meetings, Cincinnati, OH. 1978 A Quantitative study of the historical present tense in narrative. Linguistic Society of America Meetings, Boston, MA. 1977 Talking about differences.

U PA Conference on culture and communication, Philadelphia, PA. ACADEMIC AND PUBLIC SERVICE DEPARTMENT Chair, Linguistics Department, July 2003- present Director of Undergraduate Studies, Fall 2002- Summer 2003 Head, Sociolinguistics Program, Fall 1994, Fall 1998- 2003 Chair, Sociolinguistics Search Committee, 1998- 99 Organizer/participant Workshops on research planning and preparation, Fall 1997 Member, Travel grant committee 1997, 1998 Member, Undergraduate curriculum committee, Fall 1994 Member, Hiring and Search Committe, 1990, 1995, 1997 Head, Hiring and Search committee, 1989 Core curriculum review committee, 1988- 1989 Faculty evaluation committee, 1988, 1989, 1995 Graduate Advisor for Sociolinguistics Majors, 1987 to present Undergraduate Advisor for Linguistic Majors, 1983-1987 Graduate Admissions Committee, 1984-present, continuous evaluation of Sociolinguistics admissions Undergraduate Evaluation Committee, 1984 Dissertation Proposal Committee, 1983-1984 Dissertations Mentor: successfully defended: 44 in progress: 2 Reader: successfully defended: 35 in progress: 3 Masters Degree Research Papers Supervisor, successfully completed: 15 SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS Organizer, Panel on Discourse Markers, Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2001 Co-organizer, Conference on Narrative and Memory, 1999 SLL Research Committee, 1998 Member (elected), SLL Executive Council, 1988- 1989 Member, SLL Curriculum Committee, 1988 Organizer and Chair, Presession on Discourse in contact and contrast Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics, 1987 Chair, session at Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics. 1987, 1985 Director, Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics, Meaning, form, and use in context: Linguistic applications. 1984 GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY Co-organizer, 2007, Transcending Boundaries: Jewish languages, cultures and identities . Georgetown University Conference (Program for Jewish Civilization) Institutional Review Board, Fall 2002, AY 2004- 2005

University task force on Social Justice and the GU Curriculum, 1998- 2000 University Research Council, 1988- 1990 PROFESSION External reviewer Promotion, Clark University 1999 Promotion, Hebrew University, York University 1997 Tenure and Promotion, U Arizona 1995 Promotion, UCLA 1994 Promotion, U of British Columbia 1994 Tenure and Promotion, U Wisconsin 1993 Promotion, College of William and Mary 1992 Member, Theme and topic task force. Program on Conscious and Unconscious Mental Processes, funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. University of California, San Francisco, 1991- 1992. Consultant, Linguistic Society of America Program Committee, 1990, 1993, 1995 Consultant, New Ways of Analyzing Variation Program Committee, 1994 Member (elected), Linguistic Society of America Nominating Committee, 1989- 91 Discussant, panel on Discourse Theories. Linguistic Society of America Institute, Stanford University 1987 Discussant, panel on Narrative Analysis. NEH Institute on Humanistic Approaches to Linguistics, Georgetown University 1985 Workshop on Approaches to Discourse Variation (with Deborah Tannen), New Ways of Analyzing Variation Etc, Washington D.C. 1985. External Examiner, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Sydney, Australia. 1987, 1990 Member, Review Committee on Fellowships in Linguistics, American Association of University Women, 1986 Member, Review Committee on Fellowships in Linguistics, Linguistic Society of America Institute. 1985 Organizer, (with Ralph Fasold and Peter Lowenberg), New Ways of Analyzing Variation XIV, Washington, D.C. 1985 Organizer, Linguistic Society of America Institute Summer Meetings 1985 Chair, session in "Sociolinguistics" at Linguistic Society of America Meetings, Baltimore, MD. 1984 Chair, session at New Ways of Analyzing Variation XI. Washington, D.C. 1982 President, Washington Linguistics Society, 1984- 1985 Program Chair/Vice President, Washington Linguistics Society, 1983- 1984. Reviewer: National Academy of Sciences National Endowment for the Humanities National Science Foundation Center for Puerto Rican Studies, CUNY Cambridge University Press Basil Blackwell Publishers Lawrence Erlbaum Pubishers Journals: Applied Psycholinguistics, Discourse Processes, Educational Linguistics, Journal of Communication, Journal of Language and social psychology, Journal of Pragmatics, MerrillPalmer Quarterly, Multilingua, Language, Language in Society,

Linguistic change and variation, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Text Editorial board: Language in Society 1993- present Journal of Pragmatics 1990- present Language and Communication 1989- present Linguistic change and variation 1989- present Discourse Processes 1987- 1997 Pragmatics 1986- 1990 Discourse studies 1998- present Series Editor: Cambridge University Press Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics 1992- present Advisory board: Cambridge University Press Approaches to Linguistics 1992- present Text 1989- 1997 Pragmatics and Beyond, book series, John Benjamins Publishers 2000- present