ABSTRACT
P. Bourdieu clearly saw empirical data through his personal habitus to the objective conditions of their own creation: both needing to be considered as the subject and the object of science. The subject-object relation itself rests at the base of phenomenology, the view of structure of which Bourdieu so evidently shares. It might seem that reflexivity is not explicitly apparent in the early and mid-period Bourdieu’s work. The author uses the example of Linguistic Ethnography in order to exemplify issues of reflexivity and participant objectivation, a similar exercise could be undertaken by any other sub-field of applied linguistics and language-based ethnography itself. In an informal survey of institutional affiliations of members of the UK-based Linguistic Ethnography Forum in 2006, 54 were aligned with education, 53 with language, 17 with culture and area studies, six with anthropology and ten with disciplines such as computing, psychology, medicine and geography.
