Abstract
The core of this contribution is the comparison and analysis of the products of both organized and simple management strategies dealing with 'foreigner talk'. Three types of materials were used for the purpose of the study, i.e. (1) manual titled Guide for easier understanding - We and foreigners, which ought to be a fundamental part of the official language policy regarding interactions between Czechs and non-native speakers of Czech and was created by Centre for Integration of Foreigners in cooperation with Ministry of Interior, (2) task-based interactions between Czech native and non-native speakers recorded in the sound studio and (3) research interviews with Czech non-native speakers from Prague describing their own interactions with Czech native speakers.
Each of the materials was analysed differently. The published manual was first analysed based on the principles of membership categorization analysis and afterwards the different management strategies which were offered were studied.
Recorded interactions were analysed based on the accommodation theory principles and conversation analysis. The employed management strategies were documented.
In research interviews the described strategies and their evaluation were indentified. The interplay between suggested and employed strategies was studied afterwards.
Based on a confrontation of the published language policy materials and the analysis of real talk-in- interactions, I demonstrate that management strategies which originate solely from introspection and are not based on communication problems detected on the micro-level are inadequate and misleading.