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.

Laura Imhoff

Geisteswissenschaften/Anglistik/Amerikanistik

Address
Universitätsstr. 12
45141 Essen
Room
R12 R05 B35
E-Mail
laura.imhoff@uni-due.de
Website
https://www.uni-due.de/anglistik/urban_semiotics/imhoff_laura

Functions

  • Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in, Anglistik: Linguistik III

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.

    Journal articles

  • Imhoff, Laura
    Review of Seargeant, Giaxoglou & Monaghan (2023) : Political Activism in the Linguistic Landscape. Or, How to Use Public Space as a Medium for Protest
    In: Linguistic Landscape, Vol. 11, 2025, Nr. 4, pp. 436 – 439
    DOI (Open Access)

    • Book articles / Proceedings papers

  • Imhoff, Laura
    Signs of Sustainability? : The Semiotic Dimension of Urban Plants
    In: Framing Sustainability in Language and Communication / Kosatica, Maida; Smith, Sean P. (Eds.). New York: Routledge, 2025, pp. 124 – 142
    DOI (Open Access)
  • 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