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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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A Dialogical Model for Business Correspondence.

TL;DR: Despite the fact that letters and memos are the most prevalent forms of written discourse in the business community, there has been little theoretical study of professional correspondence as a dist....
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The Theatre Sign Language Interpreter and the Competing Visual Narrative: the Translation and Interpretation of Theatrical Texts into British Sign Language

TL;DR: Throughout this essay I have used the terms dramatic text for the scripted dialogue written for the theatre, and theatrical text for that produced in the theatre — the complete performance.
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Perspectives on Curriculum Construction at the Postsecondary Level: Contexts, Approaches, Principles

TL;DR: In this article, the authors apply the notion of curriculum to the foreign language field in general, and to second-or foreign-language learning in U.S. colleges and universities in particular, and present a principled approach that is open to scrutiny and that builds on the key feature of the educational proposal in question.
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elvis costello, the empire of the e chord, and a magic moment or two

David Brackett
- 01 Oct 2005 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the magic moment of "it's time" appears in a ringing e major chord at the end of the chorus, played in open position on the electric guitar.
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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