Dr. Joanne Scheibman, Associate Professor, Linguistics

Ph.D. University of New Mexico 5028 Batten Arts & Letters 757-683-3879 jscheibm <AT> odu.edu http://www.odu.edu/~jscheibm/

Teaching

• Discourse Analysis
• Syntax
• Semantics/Pragmatics
• English Linguistics
• General Linguistics
• Language, Gender, and Power
• Sociolinguistics
• American English

Research Areas

• Analysis of English Conversation
• Linguistic Subjectivity
• Discourse and Grammar

Selected Publications

forthcoming. Subjective and intersubjective uses of generalizations in English conversations. In Stancetaking in discourse: Intersubjectivity in interaction, Robert Englebretson (ed). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

2004. Inclusive and exclusive patterning of the English first person plural: Evidence from conversation. In Language, culture and mind, Michel Achard and Suzanne Kemmer (eds), 377-396. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.

2002. Point of view and grammar: Structural patterns of subjectivity in American English conversation. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

2001. Local patterns of subjectivity in person and verb type in American English conversation. In Frequency and the emergence of linguistic structure, Joan L. Bybee and Paul Hopper (eds), 61-89. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

2000. I dunno . . . A usage-based account of the phonological reduction of don't in American English conversation. Journal of Pragmatics 32: 105-124

1999. The effect of usage on degrees of constituency: The reduction of don't in English. (with Joan Bybee) Linguistics 37: 575-596.