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Grit Liebscher
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Latest papers
Multimodal repair in the semiotic landscape for social and political commentary.
Multimodality & society · 2026
Latest funding
- $25,289
Ideologies of English in the linguistic landscape
SSHRC · 2021 · Co-investigator
- $40,000
Social Interaction, Language and Culture Laboratory (SILC Lab)
ONTARIO · 2019 · Principal investigator
- $40,000
Social Interaction, Language and Culture Laboratory (SILC)
CFI · 2018 · Principal investigator
1 publications.
Multimodal repair in the semiotic landscape for social and political commentary.
Firoozkohi AH, Feddersen R, Liebscher G, Dailey-O'Cain J
Ideologies of English in the linguistic landscape
Principal investigators: Dailey-O'Cain, Jennifer L.
Keywords: sociolinguistics; linguistic landscapes; language ideologies; interactional linguistics; multimodal analysis; multilingualism; Germany; English
Social Interaction, Language and Culture Laboratory (SILC Lab)
Principal investigators: Liebscher, Grit
Social Interaction, Language and Culture Laboratory (SILC)
Principal investigators: Liebscher, Grit
Keywords: language and mobility, multilingualism, bilingualism, multimodal interaction, migration, second language learners, multilingual minorities, data corpora SILC Analysis System with synchronized video-recording, renovation of lab space
German identity in urban Canada: a qualitative and quantitative study of language and discourse
Principal investigators: Liebscher, Grit
Keywords: sociolinguistics; linguistic variation; language contact; code-switching; conversation analysis; critical ethnography; immigration; identity; German-Canadian identity; German-speaking minority; positioning theory; discourse
(Inter)acting identities in dialect and discourse: migrant Western Germans in Eastern Germany
Principal investigators: Dailey-O'Cain, Jennifer L.
Keywords: sociolinguistics; linguistic variation; conversation analysis; ethnography of speaking; migration; identity; post-unification Germany
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
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