It is a long-standing sociolinguistic challenge to make connections across large and small scales of human activity (e.g., Blommaert, 2007; Hult, 2014; Lemke, 2000; Fishman, 1972), and language policy and planning (LPP) researchers often seek to explore how policies designed for a country or an institution relate to the language behaviors of individuals (Ricento, 2000; Schiffman, 1996).  In managing this challenge, LPP researchers have increasingly been turning to ethnographic and discourse analytic tools for exploring such relationships (e.g., Johnson, 2011; Menken & García, 2010).  In this talk, I explore how the ethnographic discourse analytic approach known as nexus analysis (Hult, 2015; Scollon & Scollon, 2004) can be especially fruitful for such scalar language policy inquiry.  With roots in linguistic anthropology, interactional sociolinguistics, and critical discourse analysis, nexus analysis is a step forward in the ongoing development of ethnographic sociolinguistics.  Drawing upon my own work (e.g., Hult, 2010, 2018; Källkvist & Hult, 2016; Ou, Hult & Gu, 2021) and that of others working with this approach, I take up some of the key principles of nexus analysis as they relate to language policy.  I also consider how nexus analysis can guide language policy research design. 

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