ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with a concrete bit of field data, what Paul Atkinson has called the 'ethnographic exemplar', we could use the photograph of an electronics shop in the Mongkok area of Hong Kong. Using the ethnographic exemplar drawn from an extended and, of course, not yet completed study of the discourses of the political transition in Hong Kong, the author argues that the ethnography contribution has to make to discourse analysis, to critical discourse analysis, lies in the ethnography unfinalisability. The chapter discusses the three ways: focuses on cases of interdiscursivity, method is interdiscursive and seeks interdiscursivity between method and phenomenon in which the term 'methodological interdiscursivity' reflect the interpenetration of the social languages of discourse analysis and the communities. A discourse analysis which focuses on texts or discourses which are highly interdiscursive might itself remain methodologically hermetic.
