In Applied Linguistics, sometimes we asked ourselves or we are questioned about the type of research we do - whether it is ethnography or whether it is "type", "approach" or with "ethnographic variant". We intend to show that such inquiries tend to isolate moments of the ethnographic's experience, taking them as ethnography, leaving aside the uniqueness of experience, not explaining and sometimes ignoring an inseparable relationship between object, theory and method reducing, in this way, the ethnography as a method of field work. From this problem, raised through ethnographic's research that we accomplish in school contexts, our objective in this article is to approach a singularity of the ethnographic experience and its comprehensiveness beyond the specificities of the fieldwork. We argue that the ethnographies of the language in Applied Linguistics are policies in action that articulate socials, cultural, economics, academics and personals demands, which implies both our participation in context and the dialogism of the entire research process, including the writing of the ethnographic narrative. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]