here's a few articles that inform some of my understanding of reflexivity, http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-e/inhalt3-02-e.htm I identify more with bourdieu's ideas on the subject more than others. I do think you have to be careful with confusing meta-discourse with reflexive discourse, and the difference between the two is the position and understanding of the subject to the discourse. so, a meta-discourse would have externalization and perhaps some objectivization of the discourse in question by the subject, whereas reflexive discourse internalizes in relation to the discourse and subject, and as such does not and cannot purely objectify, but requires a feedback, a reflexivity between the subject and its discourse... or at least that is how I'm describing it today. meta... is after, or outside of, reflexive is not. jeremy hunsinger jhuns@vt.edu www.cddc.vt.edu jeremy.tmttlt.com www.tmttlt.com () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments