Deborah schifrin biography
Deborah schifrin biography
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Deborah Schiffrin
American linguist (1951–2017)
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 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