Making Policy Connections across Scales Using Nexus Analysis

Abstract

Nexus analysis provides a systematic approach to the principled eclecticism of methods needed to investigate such questions using different kinds of data across multiple settings. The primary aim of nexus analysis is to facilitate mapping of how discourses from multiple scales intersect in a social phenomenon in nexus terms, a “nexus of practice” such as language policymaking, interpretation, and/or implementation. A study grounded in the nexus analysis yields a diverse range of data such as field notes from participant observations, audio-recorded (and transcribed) interactions and interviews, documents (including policy texts), and various kinds of multi-modal data such as photography and news media. These data reflect different sociolinguistic scales ranging from the individual to the interpersonal to the communal/institutional to the societal. The analytical task is to trace discursive connections across these scales.

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