Abstract In bilingual settings language choice represents one of the main resources individuals have to construct their identities. According to Jaffe (2009), it is also a way in which individuals position themselves towards the languages of the sociolinguistic context. However, in the context of researching multilingual settings, very little attention has been paid to how the researcher’s language choice(s) interact with the participants’ language choices, and how the linguistic features that s/he activates contribute to the construction of the researcher’s identity and her/his stance towards the languages of the sociolinguistic matrix within which the research is embedded. This paper is based in the context of Catalonia and explores how the researcher projects and is ascribed a stance as a consequence of her own linguistic practices. First, it shows that these practices lead to the construction of relationships of (dis)affiliation between the researcher and the participants, which ultimately influence the type of data collected. Second, it suggests that language choice is an essential lens through which to look at the researcher’s positionality in multilingual settings and provide more transparent accounts of multilingual ethnographic research.

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多语种民族志田野调查中的语言选择和研究者的立场

摘要在双语环境中，语言选择是个人建构自己身份的主要资源之一。根据贾菲（2009）的说法，这也是个人将自己定位于社会语言环境语言的一种方式。然而，在研究多语言环境的背景下，很少关注研究者的语言选择如何与参与者的语言选择相互作用，以及他/他激活的语言特征如何促进研究者语言的建构。身份及其对研究所嵌入的社会语言矩阵语言的立场。本文以加泰罗尼亚语为背景，探讨了研究人员的预测方式，并归因于她自己的语言实践。第一，它表明，这些实践导致了研究者与参与者之间（隶属关系）关系的构建，最终影响了所收集数据的类型。其次，它表明语言选择是一个基本的视角，通过它可以观察研究人员在多语言环境中的位置，并提供更加透明的多语言人种学研究说明。