Social Interaction, Language and Culture Laboratory SILC Lab

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).

2026

Malabarba, T., & Betz, E. The inversion gesture in video-mediated instruction: Enabling students to address linguistic trouble on the fly. In Oittinen, T., & Balaman, U. (Eds.), Conversation Analytic Research on L2 Video-Mediated Interaction. Routledge.

2025

Betz, E. Ja, achja, eben. Responsivpartikeln in der Interaktion. In Proske, N., Weber, T., Dannerer, M., & Deppermann, A. (Eds.), Gesprochenes Deutsch, 347–374. De Gruyter.
Betz, E., & Gubina, A. On stance-taking with one-sided vs. two-sided shoulder lifts in German talk-in-interaction. Frontiers in Psychology.
Choi, L. J., & Lo, A. Returnee students in South Korea. Melbourne Asia Review, 19.
Liebscher, G., & Doris Stolberg. Cemeteries as semiotic landscapes: The construction of migrant spaces in Canada and Germany. LACUS Forum, 50, 27–39.
Liebscher, G., Cole Sutherland, & Jennifer Dailey-O’Cain. Functions of address in the German linguistic landscape. In I. Moyna & V. Fernandez-Mallat (Eds.), Beyond Binaries in Address Research: Politeness and identity practices in interaction, 119–145. John Benjamins.
Lo, A., & Chun, E. Language and race: Elusiveness, entanglement, enregisterment. In N. Bonvillain & 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

Betz, E. Data Sessions. In J. Robinson, R. Clift, K. Kendrick, & C. Raymond (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Methods in Conversation Analysis, 172–188. Cambridge University Press.
Golato, A., Betz, E., Taleghani-Nikazm, C., & Drake, V. Verbal and bodily practices for addressing trouble associated with embodied moves in gameplay. In M. Selting & D. Barth-Weingarten (Eds.), New Perspectives in Interactional Linguistic Research, 185–216. Benjamins.
Gubina, A., Betz, E., & Deppermann, A. Doing more than confirming: Expanded responses to requests for confirmation in German talk-in-interaction. Contrastive Pragmatics, 6(1–2), 307–346.
Lo, A., & Bell, L. A. Ethnography. In A. D. Percio & M.-C. Flubacher (Eds.), Critical Sociolinguistics: Dialogues, Dissonances, Developments, 57–69. Bloomsbury Academic.

2023

Betz, E., Malabarba, T., & Barth-Weingarten, D. (Eds.) Special Issue: Describing and Assessing Interactional Competence in a Second Language. Applied Pragmatics, 5(2).
Huth, T., & Betz, E. Schlaglichter: Interaktionskompetenz in DaFZ/In the spotlight: Interactional Competence in DaFZ. Info DAF, 50(4), 315–332.
Huth, T., Betz, E., Schmenk, B., & Schart, M. (Eds.) Thematic Issue “Interaktionskompetenz”. Info DAF, 50(4).
Malabarba, T., & Betz, E. Describing and assessing interactional competence in a second language: Introduction to the Special Issue. Applied Pragmatics, 5(2), 121–141.

2022

Kaminskaia, S., Liebscher, G., Louer, D., Yerastov, Y., & Cole, D. W. (Eds.) LACUS Forum XLVI: Contacts and Interactions. Journal of the Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States.
Schulze, M., Liebscher, G., & Siebel-Achenbach, S. (Eds.) Germans of Waterloo Region. Ottawa: Petra Books.
Carroll, R., & Liebscher, G. Earning a Living. In M. Schulze, G. Liebscher, & S. Siebel-Achenbach (Eds.), Germans of the Waterloo Region, 106–119. Ottawa: Petra Books.
Lindinger, W., & Liebscher, G. Speaking the Language. In M. Schulze, G. Liebscher, & S. Siebel-Achenbach (Eds.), Germans of the Waterloo Region, 162–171. Ottawa: Petra Books.

2021

Betz, E., Deppermann, A., Mondada, L., & Sorjonen, M.-L. (Eds.) OKAY across Languages: Toward a Comparative Approach of its Use in Talk-in-Interaction. Benjamins.
Betz, E., & Sorjonen, M.-L. OKAY emerging as a cross-linguistic object of study in prior research. In E. Betz, A. Deppermann, L. Mondada, & M.-L. Sorjonen (Eds.), OKAY across Languages, 2–28.
Betz, E., & Deppermann, A. OKAY in responding and claiming understanding. In E. Betz, A. Deppermann, L. Mondada, & M.-L. Sorjonen (Eds.), OKAY across Languages, 56–92.
Helmer, H., Betz, E., & Deppermann, A. Coordination of OKAY, nods, and gaze in claiming understanding and closing topics. In E. Betz, A. Deppermann, L. Mondada, & M.-L. Sorjonen (Eds.), OKAY across Languages, 363–393.
Lo, A., & Choi, L. The education exodus from South Korea. In F. N. Pieke, A. Dudden, & K. Iwabuchi (Eds.), Global East Asia, 129–139. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Lo, A. Whose hearing matters? Context and regimes of perception in sociolinguistics. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 267–268, 153–162.
Dailey-O’Cain, J., & Liebscher, G. Constructing the Motherland: German-Canadian Positioning and the Tensions between Place and Space. Journal of Belonging, Identity, Language, and Diversity (J-BUILD), 5(1), 11–31.
DeSouza, D., Betz, E., Clinkenbeard, M., Morita, E., Shrikant, N., & Tuccio, W. A. Taking a detour before answering the question: Turn-initial okay in second position in English interaction. Language & Communication, 76, 47–57.
Gubina, A., & Betz, E. What do newsmark-type responses invite? Research on Language and Social Interaction, 54(4).

2020

Liebscher, G. Kanadischer Christkindl-Markt zwischen zwei Kontinenten. In K. Marx (Ed.), Weihnachtslinguistik. Festliche Texte über Sprache, 87–92. Tübingen: Narr.
Lo, A., & Choi, L. Forming capital: Emblematizing discourses of mobility in South Korea (Korean translation of Lo & Choi 2017a). In Y. Kang (Ed.), Global Korean Studies: Linguistic Anthropology of South Korea. Seoul: Seoul National University Press.
Lo, A., & Chun, E. Language, race, and reflexivity: A view from linguistic anthropology. In H. S. Alim, A. Reyes, & P. Kroskrity (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Language and Race, 25–46. New York: Oxford University Press.
Lo, A. Race, language, and representations. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 263, 77–83.
Lo, A. Systems, features, figures: Approaches to language and class vs. language and race. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 24(3), 293–307.
Lo, A. On affect and race under capitalism. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 265, 129–131.
Lo, A., Rim, M., Choi, L., & Abelmann, N. Drama consumption in transnational South Korea: Korean American women and intraethnic othering. In Y. Yoon (Ed.), The Korean Wave: From a Private Commodity to a Public Good, 69–86.