Exploring practiced language policies to advance the empirical turn in language policy research
- Date: 26 March 2025
- Time: 13:00 to 14:00 (GMT)
- Speaker: Dr Florence Bonacina-Pugh, University of Edinburgh
- Location: 8 West, Room 2.15 and online (details below)
This seminar features Dr Florence Bonacina-Pugh, who will speak about her research.
About this seminar
The “Empirical turn” (Johnson and Ricento, 2013) in language policy research has seen a strong emphasis on ‘agency’ (e.g. Bouchard and Glasgow, 2019; Liddicoat & Taylor-Leech, 2021) and on micro-level ethnographic investigations of language policy processes (e.g. McCarty, 2011). In this talk, I will present the concept of ‘practiced language policies’ (Bonacina-Pugh, 2012) and how it has contributed to advancing the Empirical turn in language policy research. Drawing on a Conversation Analysis of a set of interactional data I collected in a Higher Educational setting, I will shed light on (1) what can be referred as the ‘practical’ approach to language policy research (Bonacina-Pugh, 2020), (2) what is meant by ‘practice’ in this line of research, and (3) how it can be integrated in a broader investigation of language policy as text, discourse and practice. I will also share my recent reflections on the dynamic nature of practiced language policies (Bonacina-Pugh, 2024) and how it may impact the way we research practiced language policies. Finally, I will show how the concept of ‘practiced language policy’ has recently been adopted and developed in a variety of domains other than that of education, such as the home, online communication, the workplace, healthcare settings and public spaces.
Speaker bio
Dr Florence Bonacina-Pugh, PhD, is Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Language Education and co-director of the Language, Interculturality and Literacies research hub at the Moray House School of Education and Sport at The University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. She is the co-founder and co-chair of the Language Policy Special Interest Group of the British Association of Applied Linguistics. She also serves as Associate Editor and Book review co-editor for the journal Language Policy. Florence investigates issues around multilingualism, language policy and language education. She has recently published “Language Policy as Practice: Advancing the Empirical Turn in Language Policy Research” with Palgrave.
- Meeting ID: 947 0783 9190
- Passcode: 008632