Francis M. Hult is Associate Professor at the Lund University Centre for Languages and Literature. He is the co-editor (with Kendall A. King) of Educational Linguistics in Practice (2011), editor of Directions and Prospects for Educational Linguistics (2010), and co-editor (with Bernard Spolsky) of The Handbook of Educational Linguistics (Wiley, 2008). David Cassels Johnson is Assistant Professor of Language Education at the University of Iowa. He is the author of Language Policy (2013).

• Notes on Contributors viiForeword xiiThomas Ricento1 Introduction: The Practice of Language Policy Research 1Francis M. Hult and David Cassels JohnsonPart I Fundamental Considerations 72 Selecting Appropriate Research Methods in LPP Research: Methodological Rich Points 9Nancy H. Hornberger3 Researcher Positionality 21Angel M.Y. Lin4 Ethical Considerations in Language Policy Research 33Suresh Canagarajah and Phiona Stanley5 Language Policy and Political Theory 45Stephen May6 Language and Law 56Dimitry Kochenov and Fernand de VarennesPart II Methodological Approaches to Language Planning and Policy Research 677 Exploring Language Problems through Q‐Sorting 69Joseph Lo Bianco8 Ethnography in Language Planning and Policy Research 81Teresa L. McCarty9 Classroom Discourse Analysis as a Lens on Language‐in‐Education Policy Processes 94Marilyn Martin‐Jones10 Applying Corpus Linguistics to Language Policy 107Shannon Fitzsimmons‐Doolan11 The Economics of Language Policy: An Introduction to Evaluation Work 118François Grin and François Vaillancourt12 Analyzing Language Policies in New Media 130Helen Kelly‐Holmes13 Historical‐Structural Analysis 140James W. Tollefson14 Interpretive Policy Analysis for Language Policy 152Sarah Catherine K. Moore and Terrence G. Wiley15 Intertextuality and Language Policy 166David Cassels Johnson16 Mapping Language Ideologies 181Adnan Ajsic and Mary McGroarty17 Investigating Relationships between Language Attitudes and Policy Issues 193Åsa Palviainen and Ari Huhta18 Using Census Data and Demography in Policy Analysis 205Minglang Zhou19 Making Policy Connections across Scales Using Nexus Analysis 217Francis M. HultPublic Engagement and the LPP Scholar 233Appendix A Interacting with Schools and Communities 235Rebecca Freeman FieldAppendix B Participating in Policy Debates about Language 240John R. RickfordAppendix C Interacting with Politicians and Policymakers 244Lava D. AwasthiAppendix D Managing Media Appearances 248Kendall A. KingIndex 253

"[T]he book is a thoroughly enjoyable whistle-stop tour of research methods, highly readable and accessible at a glance. The suggestions from experts on research methods, data collection, potential research questions and literature dissemination will be highly valued by post-graduate or doctoral research students. The methodological rigor and topical richness will make this book appeal to LPP researchers, (critical) discourse analysts, applied linguists and scholars in bilingual/multilingual education research." - Wenge Chen, International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2016