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We are pleased to invite submissions for an edited volume entitled Polyglot Women as Agents of Transfers in the European Romantic Public Space, edited by Antonella BRAIDA and Céline SABIRON to be ...

I'm a linguistics professor at MIT and an expert in Haitian Creole. Dehumanizing language is everywhere right now.

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NEW YORK (AP) — The author of a new biography of Phillis Wheatley, one of the country's first major poets, has received a $50,000 history award.