SILC Lab members with guest speakers Tariq Adely and Dr. Philipp S. Angermeyer
SILC Lab members with guest speakers Tariq Adely and Dr. Philipp S. Angermeyer

Social Interaction, Language and Culture Laboratory SILC Lab

About

The Social Interaction, Language and Culture Laboratory (SILC Lab) supports research on multilingualism. Through state-of-the-art 16-channel recording equipment, workstations, and data analysis software, the SILC Lab facilitates high-quality video recording, storage, and analysis of multilingual interaction by an interdisciplinary team of researchers in anthropology, conversation analysis, education, language learning, sociolinguistics, speech communication, and phonetics/phonology. 

The lab is supported by a grant from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (#37510).

Publications

Book Contributions

Forthcoming

Lo, A., & Chun, E. W. Language and race: Elusiveness, entanglement, enregisterment. In N. Bonvillain and ​I. García-Sánchez(Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology (2nd ed.). New York: Routledge.

Lo, A., & Choi, L. J. Imagining international students at an American university: Discourses of multilingualism, diversity, and race. In M. Wu, S. R. Kanobana, & J. N. Singh (Eds.), Subverting space and race: Towards a geopolitically conscious and antiracist epistemology in the sociology of language. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

2024

Lo, A., & Bell, L. A. Ethnography. In A. D. Percio & M.-C. Flubacher (Eds.), Critical Sociolinguistics: Dialogues, Dissonances, Developments. Bloomsbury Academic, 57-69.

2021

Lo, A., and Choi, L. The education exodus from South Korea. In F. N. Pieke, A. Dudden, and K. Iwabuchi, eds. Global East Asia.Berkeley: University of California Press. 129-139.

2020

Lo, A.,  and Choi, L. Forming capital: Emblematizing discourses of mobility in South Korea (Korean translation of Lo and Choi 2017a). In Y. Kang, ed. Global Korean Studies: Linguistic Anthropology of South Korea. Seoul: Seoul National University Press.

Lo, A., and Chun, E. Language, race, and reflexivity: A view from linguistic anthropology In H. Samy Alim, A. Reyes, P. Kroskrity,  eds. The Oxford Handbook of Language and Race. New York: Oxford University Press. 25-46.

Lo, A, Rim, M., Choi, L. and Abelmann, N. Drama consumption in transnational South Korea: Korean American women and intraethnic othering. In Yeonhee Yoon, ed. The Korean Wave: From a Private Commodity to a Public Good. Seoul: Korea University Press.

Journal Articles

2024. Choi, L. J., & Lo, A. Returnee students in South Korea. Melbourne Asia Review, 19.

2024. Lo, A. Commentary on Racial Optics of Escalation, Current Anthropology 65(3): 495-6.

2021. Lo, A. Whose hearing matters? Context and regimes of perception in sociolinguistics. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 267-268: 153-162.

2021. Lo, A., and Choi, L. The education exodus from South Korea. In F. N. Pieke, A. Dudden, and K. Iwabuchi, eds. Global East Asia. Berkeley: University of California Press. 129-139.

2021. Lo, A., and Choi, L. Forming capital: Emblematizing discourses of mobility in South Korea (Korean translation of Lo and Choi 2017a). In Y. Kang, ed. The Linguaculture of Modern Korean Society. Seoul: Seoul National University Press. 295-318.

2020. Lo, A. On affect and race under capitalism. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 265: 129-131.

2020. Lo, A., and Chun, E. Language, race, and reflexivity: A view from linguistic anthropology In H. Samy Alim, A. Reyes, P. Kroskrity, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Language and Race. New York: Oxford University Press. 25-46.

2020. Lo, A. Systems, features, figures: Approaches to language and class vs. language and race. Journal of Sociolinguistics 24(3): 293-307.

2020. Lo, A. Race, language, and representations. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 263: 77-83.

2020. Lo, A, Rim, M., Choi, L. and Abelmann, N. Drama consumption in transnational South Korea: Korean American women and intraethnic othering. In Yeonhee Yoon, ed. The Korean Wave: From a Private Commodity to a Public Good. Seoul: Korea University Press. 69-86.

 Adrienne Lo (Anthropology), Emma Betz (Germanic & Slavic), and Grit Liebscher (Germanic & Slavic)

SILC directors Adrienne Lo (Anthropology), Emma Betz (Germanic & Slavic), and Grit Liebscher (Germanic & Slavic)