This book is the first of three volumes of HabitusAnalysis that take the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu as a starting point to develop a methodical approach to the habitus of social actors. However, the concept of habitus and Bourdieüs approach to language are somewhat disputed while his relationist epistemology is seldom paid tribute to. The present volume therefore in its first part deals with Bourdieüs roots in relationist Neo-Kantian philosophy, the basic traits of his relationist sociology. The second part examines Bourdieüs theoretical and empirical work on language before elaborating its own praxeological concept of language use that opens the road to a methodically and theoretically