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Speech Genres and Other Late Essays

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This article is published in Modern Language Review.The article was published on 1988-07-01. It has received 1398 citations till now.

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In evidence : Linguistic transformations of events in police interview reports

TL;DR: This article examined how police investigators reproduce interviewees' utterances in narratives, in direct and indirect reported speech, and by enclosing words in reports in quotation marks, and found that it is difficult to determine whether or not words placed within quotation marks are meant to present verbatim quotes.
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Interpretation and the /Xam narratives.

TL;DR: There has been an increased interest in the /Xam narratives that form the major part of the nineteenth century archive of materials collected by Lucy Lloyd and Wilhelm Bleek in Cape Town as mentioned in this paper.
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Crowdsourcing Knowledge : Interdiscursive flows from Wikipedia into scholarly research

TL;DR: Information increasingly flows from smart online knowledge systems, based on ‘collective intelligence’, and to the more traditional form of knowledge production that takes place within academia.
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The Poetics of Talk in Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the relationship between Robert Louis Stevenson's well-loved adventure classic Treasure Island and his philosophical commitments to talk and argue that the novel aspires to translate the poetics of talk into a print medium.
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Versions of the future in relation to mobile communication technologies

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the ways in which present assumptions about technological and socio-cultural spheres are embedded within contemporary futures or "versions of the future" and how meanings and actions in relation to mobile communication technologies may be delineated by these versions which form part of our social world.
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Expansive learning at work: Toward an activity theoretical reconceptualization.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the concept of expansive learning with the help of four questions: 1. Who are the subjects of learning, 2. Why do they learn, 3. What do they teach, and 4. How do they train?
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Discourse Analysis as Theory and Method

TL;DR: Discourse Analysis as Theory and Method as discussed by the authors is a systematic introduction to discourse analysis as a body of theories and methods for social research, which brings together three central approaches, Laclau and Mouffe's discourse theory, critical discourse analysis and discursive psychology, to establish a dialogue between different forms of discourse analysis often kept apart by disciplinary boundaries.
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Computer-Mediated Collaborative Learning: Theory and Practice.

TL;DR: A conceptual framework for understanding the role of computer-mediated interaction based on a sociocultural analysis of the relationship among text, talk, and learning is introduced and current research is analyzed according to five features particular to online interaction.
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The Translator As Communicator

Basil Hatim, +1 more