ABSTRACT
Pierre Bourdieu's Esquisse pour une autoanalyse, published first in Germany as Ein soziologischer Selbstversuch, is a unique attempt to account for his intellectual trajectory and his choices as a researcher based on his experiences as a Bearnais, a son, a student, an academic, and a sociologist in the France of his time. His little book has inspired author to write the following sketch of what he called an 'auto-socioanalysis' of author's own trajectory as an applied linguist. As Jewish immigrants from Hungary and Poland at the turn of the century, and given the rampant anti-Semitism in the Britain of the time, acceding to British citizenship was a badge of distinction, a source of pride. The author gained incredible insights reading Pierre Bourdieu's Ce que parler veut dire, which put in words the contradictions author had experienced between intellectual ferment and class prejudice in French academic life.
