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michael d. picone is emeritus professor of linguistics and French at the University of Alabama, where he taught for 32 years, after earning his doctorate at the Sorbonne. His research has encompassed a variety of topics, beginning with neological tendencies in Metropolitan French, then expanding to include contemporary and historical investigations of Francophone Louisiana, general configurations and contact among languages and dialects in the Gulf South, and most recently the interaction of language and visuals. Email: .