Who is an author?

Who is an author

• Inter-disciplinary conventions. Different fields of study often have vastly different conventions when it comes to allocating authors. While a lot of disciplines tend to list authors in decreasing order of contribution, others may list authors in alphabetical order, regardless of the individual contribution. The issue of determining whether or not “lesser” contributors should be listed at all...

Who should be an author?

Over recent months I have been approached by authors of accepted or already published papers with requests to remove an author or to add an author. Typically, they think that this is a trivial request that can be easily accommodated with little explanation other than ‘after the manuscript was accepted we remembered that author X was actually away at the time we did the experiments and wrote the...

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...

Michel Foucault WHAT IS AN AUTHOR ?