Linguistic ethnographers largely agree that engaging in self-reflexivity enables researchers to identify how their actions, subjectivities, and motivations influence research. In this article, I argue for a discourse-oriented ethnographic account as an alternative method for documenting and reporting such reflexivity. The overall goal of this article is to examine reflexive research practices in the study of tourism communication. Presenting illustrative cases, I closely analyze how the researcher’s co-presence naturally opens up opportunities for some form of intervention in tourist–guide dyads. I show that researcher participation that is intended to resolve local interactional problems can have unintended consequences resulting in marginalization or exclusion of the key participants. The analysis shows that the researcher is not only the knowledge-maker in applied linguistics research but is also an object of analysis in the process. Overall, the study is intended to invite workplace researchers to reflect on whether and how much to participate, how their participation shapes researcher–participant relationships, how their relationship impacts data and knowledge claims, and how issues of balance and distance can be negotiated.

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在旅游场所中应用语言学研究的反思性

语言民族志研究人员普遍认为，进行自我反省可以使研究人员确定他们的行为，主观性和动机如何影响研究。在本文中，我主张以话语为导向的人种学方法作为记录和报告这种反身性的另一种方法。本文的总体目标是研究旅游传播研究中的反思性研究实践。在介绍说明性案例的过程中，我仔细分析了研究人员的共同存在是如何自然地为以游客为主导的二元干预提供某种形式的机会的。我表明，旨在解决本地互动问题的研究人员参与会产生意想不到的后果，从而导致关键参与者的边缘化或排斥。分析表明，研究者不仅是应用语言学研究的知识创造者，而且还是过程中分析的对象。总体而言，该研究旨在邀请工作场所研究人员反思是否参与以及参与多少，他们的参与如何塑造研究者与参与者的关系，他们的关系如何影响数据和知识主张以及如何就平衡与距离问题进行谈判。