Deborah Schiffrin
Biographic Data
| ID | 84207 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deborah Schiffrin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deborah |
| FAMILY NAME | Schiffrin |
| SIGNATURE | SCHIFFRIN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgetown University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 460 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 7 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
The Handbook of Discourse Analysis
The Handbook of Discourse Analysis
Handbook of Discourse Analysis
Discourse and Identity Construction
Definiciones de discurso
Si bien el análisis del discurso es cada vez más popular y más importante como área de estudio, sigue siendo un campo vasto y, de alguna manera, vago. La meta del libro en su conjunto es clarificar las diversas teorías y métodos del análisis del discurso, de modo que pueda seguir abordando una amplia gama de problemáticas y fenómenos de interés multidisciplinario, pero de una manera más sistemática y coherente. El análisis del discurso es importa…
Crossing boundaries
Recent research on narrative has widened the scope of analysis, suggesting the value of reexamining the canonical Labovian view of the structure and function of personal-experience narrative. This article suggests that narrative is not simply a way of evoking and shaping experience in time. Rather, narrative can evoke and shape cultural "chronotopes" (Bakhtin 1981) or nexuses of time, space, and identity. To illustrate this, I analyze a narrative…
Handbook of Discourse Analysis
Selves and Identities in Narrative and Discourse
The different traditions that have inspired the contributors to this volume can be divided along three different orientations, one that is rooted predominantly in sociolinguistics, a second that is ethnomethodologically informed, and a third that came in the wake of narrative interview research. All three share a commitment to view self and identity not as essential properties of the person but as constituted in discursive practices and particula…
Selves and Identities in Narrative and Discourse (Studies in Narrative)
x, 355 p. : 25 cm
Discourse and Identity
The relationship between language, discourse and identity has always been a major area of sociolinguistic investigation. In more recent times, the field has been revolutionized as previous models - which assumed our identities to be based on stable relationships between linguistic and social variables - have been challenged by pioneering new approaches to the topic. This volume brings together a team of leading experts to explore discourse in a r…
The Handbook of Discourse Analysis
We Knew That’s It
A paradigmatic means of conveying a turningpoint in a narrativeof danger is the line ‘we knew that’s it’ (Labov, 1972). In four tellings of a single narrative about danger during the Holocaust, anarrator varies this line in ways that maintain its collective focus on knowledge, but alter what is ‘known’. An analysis of changes in the ‘we knew [x]’ line reveals its relationship with the changingstructure of the narrative and with the shift toward m…
Mother and friends in a Holocaust life story
Although oral histories about the Holocaust are increasingly important sources of public commemoration, as well as data for historians, they also provide opportunities for survivors to recount life stories that describe intensely personal and painful memories. One type of memory concerns relationships with significant and familiar "others." By analyzing the linguistic construction (through variation in the use of referring terms and reported spee…
Handbook of Discourse Analysis
Language and Public Memorial
Museums and exhibits that present `history' offer largely visual versions of collective narratives to a broad audience. Yet language can play a critical role in these versions of the past and, like the histories themselves, the language can become controversial. For example, the title of an exhibit on the Japanese-American internment in World War II-`America's Concentration Camps' - was disturbing to American Jews who associated `concentration ca…
Language, experience and history
Sociolinguistics can contribute to our understanding of history by showing how language helps to develop and maintain a sense of a communal past. This paper focuses on the referring terms for the World War II experiences of European Jews and of Japanese Americans, as evinced through various sources of public discourse (newspapers, library cataloguing systems, book titles). The analysis of linguistic form and function combines with discussion of t…
Mother/Daughter Discourse in a Holocaust Oral History
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Towards a Social Science of Language
Labov's early formulation of importance of evaluation in narrative (1972: 366-375) stimulated investigation of evaluation in storytelling by a wide range of scholars, including folklorists (Bauman 1975:290-234; Robinson 1981), linguists (Polanyi 1979), and anthropologists (Watson 1973). Labov argued that evaluation, means by which narrator indicates the point of naITative, its raison d'etre: why it was told, and what narrator is getting at was pe…
Towards a Social Science of Language
This is a two-volume collection of original research papers designed to reflect the breadth and depth of the impact that William Labov has had on linguistic science. Four areas of 'Labovian' linguistics are addressed: First is the study of variation and change; the papers in sections I and II of the first volume take this as their central theme, with a focus on either the social context and uses of language (I) or on the the internal linguistic d…
Stories in Answer to Questions in Research Interviews
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Stories in Answer to Questions in Research Interviews
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Approaches to Discourse
Theory and method in discourse analysis
Narrative as self-portrait
The ability of narrative to verbalize and situate experience as text (both locally and globally) provides a resource for the display of self and identity. This article focuses on two stories told by Jewish-American women about troublesome issues in their families. Analysis of the language of the stories shows how they reveal aspects of the storytellers' agentive and epistemic selves; how they construct positions in their families (pivoting betwee…
Making a list
The construction of everyday lists (in either speaking or writing) has received very little attention from discourse analysts. This article draws from a corpus of spoken lists to focus upon some key aspects of their discourse structure. A comparison between lists and narratives shows that different information structures are created in the two genres: a descriptive structure in lists and temporal and evaluative structures in narratives. These str…
Jewish argument as sociability
Talk that is argumentative in form can have sociable functions for members of some groups. In sociable argument, speakers repeatedly disagree, remain nonaligned with each other, and compete for interactional goods. Yet they do so in a nonserious way, and in ways which actually display their solidarity and protect their intimacy. The analysis raises questions about the adequacy of many current views about conversational cooperation, showing that t…
Narrative as self-portrait
The ability of narrative to verbalize and situate experience as text (both locally and globally) provides a resource for the display of self and identity. This article focuses on two stories told by Jewish-American women about troublesome issues in their families. Analysis of the language of the stories shows how they reveal aspects of the storytellers' agentive and epistemic selves; how they construct positions in their families (pivoting betwee…
Tense variation in narrative
The narrative is a naturally bound unit of discourse in which both formal and functional aspects of grammatical variation can be examined in a controlled and systematic way. This paper is a quantitative analysis of the past and the historical-present tenses as alternative ways of referring to past events in narrative. It shows how the organization of narrative delimits the area in which the historical present can occur, and how various structural…
Meta-Talk
Conversational Coherence
Conversational coherence is a coöperative enterprise in which speaker and hearer jointly negotiate (a) a focus of attention—a referent—and (b) a response which further selects what aspect(s) of that referent will be attended to. Because not all potential referents can be attended to simultaneously, discourse markers like well help speakers locate themselves and their utterances in the on-going construction of discourse. Analysis of everyday talk …
Functions of and in discourse
Opening Encounters
Mother and friends in a Holocaust life story
Although oral histories about the Holocaust are increasingly important sources of public commemoration, as well as data for historians, they also provide opportunities for survivors to recount life stories that describe intensely personal and painful memories. One type of memory concerns relationships with significant and familiar "others." By analyzing the linguistic construction (through variation in the use of referring terms and reported spee…
Crossing boundaries
Recent research on narrative has widened the scope of analysis, suggesting the value of reexamining the canonical Labovian view of the structure and function of personal-experience narrative. This article suggests that narrative is not simply a way of evoking and shaping experience in time. Rather, narrative can evoke and shape cultural "chronotopes" (Bakhtin 1981) or nexuses of time, space, and identity. To illustrate this, I analyze a narrative…
Mother/Daughter Discourse in a Holocaust Oral History
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Making a list
The construction of everyday lists (in either speaking or writing) has received very little attention from discourse analysts. This article draws from a corpus of spoken lists to focus upon some key aspects of their discourse structure. A comparison between lists and narratives shows that different information structures are created in the two genres: a descriptive structure in lists and temporal and evaluative structures in narratives. These str…
We Knew That’s It
A paradigmatic means of conveying a turningpoint in a narrativeof danger is the line ‘we knew that’s it’ (Labov, 1972). In four tellings of a single narrative about danger during the Holocaust, anarrator varies this line in ways that maintain its collective focus on knowledge, but alter what is ‘known’. An analysis of changes in the ‘we knew [x]’ line reveals its relationship with the changingstructure of the narrative and with the shift toward m…
Anaphoric then
Handwork as Ceremony
Language and Public Memorial
Museums and exhibits that present `history' offer largely visual versions of collective narratives to a broad audience. Yet language can play a critical role in these versions of the past and, like the histories themselves, the language can become controversial. For example, the title of an exhibit on the Japanese-American internment in World War II-`America's Concentration Camps' - was disturbing to American Jews who associated `concentration ca…
Language, experience and history
Sociolinguistics can contribute to our understanding of history by showing how language helps to develop and maintain a sense of a communal past. This paper focuses on the referring terms for the World War II experiences of European Jews and of Japanese Americans, as evinced through various sources of public discourse (newspapers, library cataloguing systems, book titles). The analysis of linguistic form and function combines with discussion of t…
Conditionals as topics in discourse
Multiple constraints on discourse options
(1985). Multiple constraints on discourse options: A quantitative analysis of causal sequences. Discourse Processes: Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 281-303
Toward an empirical base in pragmatics (Review Article)
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Theory and method in discourse analysis
Handwork as Ceremony
Opening Encounters
Meta-Talk
The Pear Stories
Tense variation in narrative
The narrative is a naturally bound unit of discourse in which both formal and functional aspects of grammatical variation can be examined in a controlled and systematic way. This paper is a quantitative analysis of the past and the historical-present tenses as alternative ways of referring to past events in narrative. It shows how the organization of narrative delimits the area in which the historical present can occur, and how various structural…
Language, Meaning and Context
Black and White Styles in Conflict
Goes a long way toward showing a lay audience the value, integrity, and aesthetic sensibility of black culture, and moreover the conflicts which arise when its values are treated as deviant version of majority ones.--Marjorie Harness Goodwin, American Ethnologist
Discourse Strategies
Jewish argument as sociability
Talk that is argumentative in form can have sociable functions for members of some groups. In sociable argument, speakers repeatedly disagree, remain nonaligned with each other, and compete for interactional goods. Yet they do so in a nonserious way, and in ways which actually display their solidarity and protect their intimacy. The analysis raises questions about the adequacy of many current views about conversational cooperation, showing that t…
Lauri Carlson, Dialogue games. An approach to discourse analysis. Dordrecht, Holland and Boston
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Multiple constraints on discourse options
(1985). Multiple constraints on discourse options: A quantitative analysis of causal sequences. Discourse Processes: Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 281-303
Conversational Coherence
Conversational coherence is a coöperative enterprise in which speaker and hearer jointly negotiate (a) a focus of attention—a referent—and (b) a response which further selects what aspect(s) of that referent will be attended to. Because not all potential referents can be attended to simultaneously, discourse markers like well help speakers locate themselves and their utterances in the on-going construction of discourse. Analysis of everyday talk …
Functions of and in discourse
Discourse Markers
Discourse markers - the particles oh, well, now, then, you know and I mean, and the connectives so, because, and, but and or - perform important functions in conversation. Dr Schiffrin's approach is firmly interdisciplinary, within linguistics and sociology, and her rigourous analysis clearly demonstrates that neither the markers, nor the discourse within which they function, can be understood from one point of view alone, but only as an integrat…
Toward an empirical base in pragmatics (Review Article)
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Discourse Markers
Discourse Markers
Linguistic Anthropology
Anaphoric then
Conditionals as topics in discourse
Research talk on, for, and with social subjects
Making a list
The construction of everyday lists (in either speaking or writing) has received very little attention from discourse analysts. This article draws from a corpus of spoken lists to focus upon some key aspects of their discourse structure. A comparison between lists and narratives shows that different information structures are created in the two genres: a descriptive structure in lists and temporal and evaluative structures in narratives. These str…
Narrative as self-portrait
The ability of narrative to verbalize and situate experience as text (both locally and globally) provides a resource for the display of self and identity. This article focuses on two stories told by Jewish-American women about troublesome issues in their families. Analysis of the language of the stories shows how they reveal aspects of the storytellers' agentive and epistemic selves; how they construct positions in their families (pivoting betwee…
Towards a Social Science of Language
This is a two-volume collection of original research papers designed to reflect the breadth and depth of the impact that William Labov has had on linguistic science. Four areas of 'Labovian' linguistics are addressed: First is the study of variation and change; the papers in sections I and II of the first volume take this as their central theme, with a focus on either the social context and uses of language (I) or on the the internal linguistic d…
Stories in Answer to Questions in Research Interviews
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Sociology (30 works) · Linguistics (27 works) · Philosophy (27 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (20 works) · Psychology (19 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (18 works) · Computer Science (17 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (16 works) · Narrative (9 works) · Epistemology (8 works)