Hi, Yuri,<div><br></div><div>Editors (and I am one, as you know) do not tell authors not to refer to themselves. This is only the case in the text of an article when it is being submitted for arbitration for the journal, in order not to sway reviewers by the 'august fame' of the author (ie favorably) or conversely, 'I never heard of him, so he can't be any good' (ie, negatively). Likewise, authors, as a matter of style as well, should avoid locutions like 'I showed (Fidelholtz 1975) that ...'. In other words, we aspire to blind reviewing, since that is likely to be more objective. Of course, this is difficult in practice, since the nature of the study will often indicate to others in the field who the author is. And in corpus linguistics, we can just run different software on the article and find out who wrote it ;-). Ha! It should be so easy!</div>
<div><br></div><div>In short, since blind reviewing has been instituted for most journals, many surprises have resulted on both sides of the possible outcomes. For authors, if there is any doubt about particular ways of expressing one's results, the best idea is to contact the editor before submitting or upon submission of the article for suggestions on how to handle specific reference problems.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I do, however, doubt that we can find cases where really *no one* has ever done *anything* that is pertinent to our topic. I did my thesis on the phonology of an understudied American Indian language in the 1960s and still managed a 5-page bibliography (none of which were me, though many were works on general theoretical points). </div>
<div><br></div><div>Jim <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Yuri Tambovtsev <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:yutamb@mail.ru">yutamb@mail.ru</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Dear Corpora colleagues, selfreferences are
prohibited. But what can I do if nobody writes anything in my narrow field of
research? If I omit references to my own articles, then there'd be no references
at all. What can you advise me? Is it not noble to refer to your own opus?
Looking forward to hearing from you soon to <a href="mailto:yutamb@mail.ru" target="_blank">yutamb@mail.ru</a> Bewell, Yuri
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<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>James L. Fidelholtz<br>Posgrado en Ciencias del Lenguaje<br>Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades<br>Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, MÉXICO<br>
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