On Being Read

Abstract

I want to start by citing myself, not because what I said previously was particularly profound or clever, not because the wise and gentle souls who have offered their essays have misread my work and I want to make corrective, and not because the paper titles that carry my name justifies such an act of hubris. In fact, to cite myself before I get to the citation I’ve been discussing, I’ve argued in A Methodology of the Heart that you should, “Quote yourself only to point out the error of your earlier thinking” (p. 144) and, quite honestly, I have no intention of doing that here. Nevertheless, I still want to start with an ostentatious and embarrassing self-citation. I once wrote, “Be grateful when, correctly or not, you are quoted” (p. 144) and as I write at the end of this public act of citation, I am indeed grateful and humbled.

Citation

Pelias, R.J. (2006), "On Being Read", Denzin, N.K. (Ed.) Studies in Symbolic Interaction (Studies in Symbolic Interaction, Vol. 29), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 45-49. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0163-2396(06)29006-9