ABSTRACT
In this chapter, Hazel Price and Dan McIntyre provide a brief historical overview of public linguistics. They offer a typology of public engagement in linguistics, suggesting that there are essentially four models of public engagement: (i) acquisitional, (ii) contributory, (iii) transactional and (iv) reciprocal. They argue that a reciprocal approach to public engagement is the ideal, with the caveat that the extent of reciprocity may vary according to the project in question.
