Description
The conceptualisation of ‘practiced language policies’ has advanced the Empirical turn in Language Policy research by seeing practices (understood here as ‘what people usually do’) as policy, that is, as influencing speakers’ language choices. In this interactive talk, I will first give an overview of the original understanding of ‘practiced language policies’ (Bonacina-Pugh 2012, 2020) before turning to more recent developments of the term, showing in particular the dynamic nature of practiced language policies, as well as the ways in which practiced language policies have been researched across a variety of contexts such as schools, the home, and the workplace (Bonacina-Pugh, Forthcoming). In this interactive talk, I will then revisit the data from one of my papers (Bonacina-Pugh, Barakos and Chen 2021) to give some practical examples as to how a practiced language policy can be identified using Conversation Analysis on a corpus audio-recorded classroom interactions.| Period | 14 Dec 2023 |
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| Held at | Michigan State University, United States |
| Degree of Recognition | International |