Taking research "personally"

[Michel DeGraff]

RE:

> Hey, don't take it so personally!  Scientists tend to regard all
> study subjects that way.

I would suggest that `scientists' and `subjects' DO take it personally,
toward the sort of paradigm for research "on, for and with" the speaker, as
advocated by, say, Deborah Cameron et al (see their _Researching Language:
Issues of Power and Method_, London: Routledge, 1992).

Similar issues have plagued Creole studies from their very inception, and
it does take a certain amount of personal outrage for things to change.

                                 -michel.
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