Using a ‘Family Language Policy’ lens to explore the dynamic and relational nature of child agency

This article contributes to a dialogue between childhood studies and the sociolinguistic subfield ‘Family Language Policy’ (‘FLP’). The argues that two fields provide complementary vantage points for exploring child agency. It explains revised version of model I developed conceptualise agency in FLP, consisting four intersecting dimensions: compliance regimes; linguistic norms; competence generational positioning (Smith-Christmas, Handbook home language maintenance development. De Gruyter Mouton, pp. 218–235, 2020a). examines conversational excerpts as means illustrating dynamic relational nature how it is both shaped by well shapes interactional practices over time space.