I understand that it is bad form to reply to one's own post but
an example came to mind which I thought I'd throw out there:
On Wed, 4 Dec 2013 19:37:35 -0500, Mike Palij wrote:
Hmm, a more vexing question, I think, is how do you cite
the voices in one's head? Should one just identify this as a
"personal communication" or is there a more appropriate
citation and reference?
Remember the movie "The Shining"? At the end, the little boy
Danny and his mother escape, implying they have lives beyond
the movie. Imagine that Danny grows up, gets a Ph.D. in
psychology, and happily writes papers for publication. Remember
that as a child Danny acknowledged that there was a little boy
named "Tony" that lived in his mouth (see:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081505/quotes )
Imagine that Tony leaves Danny's mouth and another "person"
moves in, oh, named "William James". In the movie, Tony
provided suggestions and opinions (e.g., REDRUM) and it
is quite possible that as an adult, William James would provide
advice to Danny on a number of issues ranging from research
design to interpretation of results/issues to advice on writing.
How should Danny cite the advice he receives from William
James? Consider the following example:
"Many have interpreted William James' statement on the infant's
perception of the world as being 'one great blooming, buzzing
confusion' as a statement about the tabula rosa state of the infant's
mind, that is, the infant lacks knowledge about the world and to
categorize its experience of the different stimuli that it experience
(see, for example:Goldman 2013
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/thoughtful-animal/2012/07/26/blooming-buzzing-confusion-but-who-is-confused/ )
.
But in discussions with William James who lives in my mouth,
he tells me that he was actually engaged in a little wordplay
and wondered how many people would mistakenly think that
he said "booming, buzzing confusion" instead of "blooming,
buzzing confusion" because of the apparent unusual use of the
term "blooming" for the more consistent word "booming"
(William James, personal communications, November 1, 2013).
Indeed, James has expressed some degree of satisfaction over
this point because a Google search shows that many people in
fact do use "booming" instead of "blooming"; see:
https://www.google.com/search?num=100&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=rcs&q=great+booming,+buzzing+confusion&nfpr=1&sa=X&ei=N46gUtuoNOrlsATjooHgAQ&ved=0CCoQvgUoAQ
.
This highlights the importance of not only checking original sources
but checking with authors even if they are currently deceased."
-Mike Palij
New York University
[email protected]
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