Who is allowed to belong?

Who Is a Bilingual?

The question of who is and who is not a bilingual is more difficult to answer than it first appears. Bilingualism was long regarded as the equal mastery of two languages, a definition that still prevails in certain glossaries of linguistics. However, today's complex world requires a more exact definition and analysis of the competencies that community members require to interact with speakers o...

Which is which and who is who: Roger Waters up against Media

Pink Floyd was a British band whose work began in the late 60s. Roger Waters, the main contributor of the band, wrote almost all the lyrics and was also a main figure behind producing the motion picture of the album. He deliberately attacks Western media in both the lyrics he has written for the band and his solo projects. The present study finds this tendency of assaulting the media deeply roo...

When is Situation Semantics Allowed?

Quantification over individuals seems to be all we need to capture the covariation in (1a). It has been proposed within the framework of situation semantics (Kratzer 1989) that there can also be quantification over situations. The most convincing case is that of quantificational adverbs (Berman 1987, Heim 1990, von Fintel 1994)—I will be assuming in this paper that the correct analysis of these...

The Need to Belong

To belong or not to belong, that is the question: terror management and identification with gender and ethnicity.

The terror management prediction that reminders of death motivate in-group identification assumes people view their identifications positively. However, when the in-group is framed negatively, mortality salience should lead to disidentification. Study 1 found that mortality salience increased women's perceived similarity to other women except under gender-based stereotype threat. In Study 2, mo...