This chapter provides an opportunity to deconstruct the reflexive accounts researchers provide about their bilingualism. It describes how researchers wrote vignettes to discuss their role in the research team, and their researcher identities. These vignettes became an invaluable resource in the understandings of bilingualism as a social construct. Researching multilingualism involves bringing into play different voices which are in a complex and dynamic relationship with one another. There are discourses about equality which clash with discourses about social hierarchies; there are also discourses about bilingualism and blurred boundaries, which run concurrently with ideologies about language separation, ethnicity, and the right to represent. In selecting particular extracts, the chapter focuses on how notions of “language” and “bilingualism” appear in the vignettes, and shape one's research on multilingualism.
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