Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Three happy researchers received a Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) award to establish the University of Waterloo Social Interaction, Language and Culture Laboratory (SILC Lab).
Directed by Grit Liebscher (Germanic & Slavic), Emma Betz (Germanic & Slavic), and Adrienne Lo (Anthropology), SILC will house state-of-the-art video recording equipment, workstations, and data analysis software. It will support research on multilingual interaction in the Faculty of Arts, including linguistic anthropology, conversation analysis, education, language learning, sociolinguistics, speech communication, and phonetics/phonology. The SILC Lab will be housed in Modern Languages 109/110, with construction beginning in spring 2019.