How Linguistic Ethnographers Blommaert And. Borba...

In the present essay, we have seen how linguistic ethnographers Blommaert and Borba conceptualize ethnographic research in their two works, what function language had in the observed, situated interactions and how it was approached to further investigate larger frameworks. Besides the more technical aspects, we have seen that in both accounts, language plays a crucial role in the reproduction of inequality and some sociologic and ethnographic concepts, when applied to observation of linguistic forms, can help to grasp the larger structures regimenting institutional practices. 2 Source : http://www.Colorado.EDU/English/ENGL2012Klages/1997foucault.html Student number: 1568114 14 Overall, the two accounts are not incompatible, even if they†¦show more content†¦Student number: 1568114 15 REFERENCES Androutsopoulos, J. (2014) Mediatization and Sociolinguistic Change. Berlin-Boston: Walter de Gruyter GmbH Bauman, R. Briggs, C. (1990) Poetics and performance as critical perspectives on language and social life. Annual Review of Anthropology (19) 59-88 Blommaert, J. (2015) Pierre Bourdieu and language in society. Tilburg Papers in Culture Studies #126. At www.tilburguniversity.edu Blommaert, J. (2005) Bourdieu the Ethnographer – The ethnographic Grounding of Habitus and Voice. The Translator # 11 (2) 219-236. At www.academia.edu Borba, R. (2015) How an individual becomes a subject. Discourse, interaction subjectification at a Brazilian gender identity clinic. Working Papers in Urban Language Literacies #163. At www.kcl.ac.uk/ldc Bourdieu, P. (1972) Esquisse d’une thà ©orie de la pratique prà ©cedà © de Trois à ©tudes d’à ©thnologie kabile. Paris: Seuil Bourdieu, P. (1984) Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste. Massachussets: Harvard University Press. Bourdieu, P. (1990a) The Logic of Practice. Cambridge: Polity Press Bourdieu, P. (2000) Making the Economic Habitus: Algerian Workers Revisited.