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James J. Collins

Researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Publications -  700
Citations -  105255

James J. Collins is an academic researcher from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Synthetic biology & Population. The author has an hindex of 151, co-authored 669 publications receiving 89476 citations. Previous affiliations of James J. Collins include Baylor College of Medicine & University at Albany, SUNY.

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Texts, Social Relations, and Work-based Skepticism about Schooling: An Ethnographic Analysis

TL;DR: The connection between schooling, work, and language has grown increasingly problematic in recent decades, and as discussed by the authors explores that connection, addressing certain debates about cultural mismatch, social reproduction, and school resistance, while presenting an ethnographic analysis of school and community in a rural Northeastern setting.
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Discourse and Critique: Part One Introduction

TL;DR: In the absence of any dialogue between them, the differences are more striking than the similarities as mentioned in this paper, and the differences between the two types of discourse analysis can be seen as a sign of the lack of transatlantic contact between them.
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"You Don't Know What They Translate": Language Contact, Institutional Procedure, and Literacy Practice in Neighborhood Health Clinics in Urban Flanders

TL;DR: The authors examines how local, institutional communicative economies adjust to changes in multilingual client populations of immigrants and refugees in a health clinic in the Flemish city of Ghent, Belgium, and examines how language ideologies in a context of multilingual diversity bear on the development of institutional procedures and interactional routines through the planning and use of print materials.