Deborah Schiffrin is Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University. Her publications include In other words: Variation in reference and narrative (2006), Approaches to Discourse (1994), and Discourse Markers (1987). She is also the co-editor of Telling Stories (with Anna De Fina and Anastasia Nylund, 2010) and Discourse and Identity (with Anna De Fina and Michael Bamberg, 2006).