Based on the analysis of President Donald J. Trump’s social media, along with excerpts from his speeches and press releases, this study sheds light framing white supremacy during first months COVID-19 pandemic in United States. Our findings reveal that triad divide, divert, conquer was crucial to communications strategy. We argue racist nativism—or racialized national threats American security—...

I argue that contemporary philosophy of language in the analytic tradition rests on two fundamentally wrong assumptions: empiricism and externalism. After I show why these two assumptions are incorrect, I turn my attention to biological rationalism. Biological rationalism—a research program inspired by the work of Noam Chomsky—is committed to nativism and internalism. I believe biological ratio...

Abstract. This article explores how the populist radical right manage identity talk on an international stage. Speeches from Europe of Nations and Freedom conference held in Koblenz, Germany, January 21, 2017, were analyzed using a rhetorical critical discursive psychology approach. occasion was celebratory public display solidarity between political actors who privilege national interests, adv...

On 5 September 2017, the Trump administration decided to rescind Deferred Action for Childhood (DACA) policy, impacting over 800,000 recipients, and more colleges universities witnessed a heightened sense of emboldened racism in college environments. This paper draws from focus groups with undocumented students on how era influenced campus climate. We found that imperialist reclamation whitenes...

In an exciting in-depth study of Korean language learners, Han, Musolino, and Lidz (1) show that children often arrive at grammars that do not match their parents. Learners appear to choose between multiple linguistic systems that are consistent with their most direct observed evidence. The authors frame these results as informing the nature vs. nurture debate: because learners acquire a gramma...

Abstract Contemporary democracy in multiple countries has been under assault from what variously called right-wing populism, authoritarian cultural majoritarianism, new nativism, nationalism, quasi-fascism, and neo-fascism. While the behaviors of several electorally legitimated leaders these have focus, their misogyny is seen as merely an incidental part personality. This article highlights cen...

How can one find meaning in the scattered fragments that remain from a life? For me, this question arose full force when I was asked to contribute short piece of writing on my mother Angela Göktürk volume honoring her life and work, initiated published Turkey by former colleagues at Trakya University Edirne. Leafing through handwritten notebooks, loose pages, letters, photographs—some...