Making Policy Connections across Scales Using Nexus Analysis

Parental discourses of language ideology and linguistic identity in multilingual Finland

“…153-154). In our analysis, we therefore carried out mapping and circumferencing discourse analysis of the lived experiences and language learning trajectories of, and beliefs held by, the individual parents (the historical body); norms of interaction and expectations about social rolesorparticipants and their significance (the interaction order); and the situated context in which action took place, including ideologies, socially and historically situated concepts and norms of interpretation (the discourses in place) (Hult, 2015). With the two research questions in mind, we mapped relevant people, places, discourses, objects, and concepts (Scollon & Scollon, 2004, pp.…”

“…'Mother tongue', as mentioned above, is an example of a socially and historically constructed concept (Hult, 2015) that can play out in complex ways as ideological discourse. In one sense, the mother tongue can be very emotionally loaded and closely connected with personal lived experience and identity.…”

Introduction: Scales analysis, and its uses and prospects in educational linguistics

“…Hult (2010) used scalar aspects to investigate how patterns of discourses are repeated at different scales and to demonstrate the ways in which his participants make national policy relevant in moments of interaction by deploying resources from other scales. More recently, Hult (2015) illustrated how nexus analysis can be adopted to make policy connections across scales by situating a single action within the nexus of practice (Scollon & Scollon, 2004) as a whole. Such a multidimensional practice-based approach to understanding language policy discourses underscores the nested and rhizomatic facets of scales.…”

Toward a Unified Theory of Language Development: The Transdisciplinary Nexus of Cognitive and Sociocultural Perspectives on Social Activity

“…Scollon and Scollon (2004) refer to Gee's (1999) definition of discourse as "different ways in which we humans integrate language with non-language 'stuff,' such as different ways of thinking, acting, interacting, valuing, feeling, believing, and using symbols, tools, and objects" (p. 4). As such, discourse in place includes the material (e.g., Scollon & Scollon, 2004) and the conceptual/ideological (Hult, 2015(Hult, , 2017 phenomena in place at the moment of action.…”