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  • Figuring the Middle Ground: A Search for Authorship in Perceiving China's COVID-19 Lockdowns 

    Zhang, San (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023-06)
    Witnessing and attempting to comprehend China’s controversial response to COVID-19 over the past three years from a geographically distant yet culturally and emotionally intimate standpoint, I have grappled with multiple ...
  • Topics in Marma (မာရမာ) 

    Marma, Rani Ukhengching (ဦး ချမ်း စိန် မာရမာ) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2024-09)
    Marma¹ an endangered indigenous language of Bangladesh, is spoken by approximately 200,000 Marma individuals residing in Bangladesh’s southern region called the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT). Marma language is closely related ...
  • Not Function but Function Conquered: Against a Functionalist Theory of Directives 

    Hill, John (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2024-09)
    Ordering, requesting, and inviting are examples of directive speech acts. Philosophers have offered different accounts of what it is to perform a directive, which they have developed using different theoretical resources. ...

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