Laura Imhoff
Laura Imhoff is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Department of Anglophone Studies, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. She studied Sociology and German Studies at the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf and received her M.A. degree with a thesis on “Urban semantics: a linguistic study on the constitution of meaning in public space exemplified by selected street art in Düsseldorf”. In her research, Laura is committed to investigating climate change discourses and the semiotics of (un)sustainable place-making. In her doctoral project, tentatively titled “The production of urban green space: a semiotic approach to activism and performance in environmental discourse”, she looks at stickers as a distinctive genre deployed in the constitution of the environmental activism discourse.
Geisteswissenschaften/Anglistik/Amerikanistik
45141 Essen
Functions
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Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in, Anglistik: Linguistik III
Current lectures
Past lectures
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2024 SS
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2023 WS
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2023 SS
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2022 WS
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2022 SS
The following publications are listed in the online university bibliography of the University of Duisburg-Essen. Further information may also be found on the person's personal web pages.
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Review of Seargeant, Giaxoglou & Monaghan (2023) : Political Activism in the Linguistic Landscape. Or, How to Use Public Space as a Medium for ProtestIn: Linguistic Landscape (2024) in pressOnline Full Text: dx.doi.org/
Journal articles
- Interdisciplinary approaches to the (multimodal) constitution of meaning
- Urban Linguistics, Semantics and Semiotics
- Semiotic landscapes of (un-)sustainable place-making
- Discourses of sustainability, environmental change and activism
- Environmental activist stickers
- Semiotic dimensions of urban flora and fauna
- Science communication