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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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Witches, 'Bitches' or Feminist Trailblazers? The Witch in Fold Horror Cinema

TL;DR: Witches have a long history in horror cinema but their status (feminist heroine or patriarchal monster?) continues to be the subject of critical debate as mentioned in this paper. But it is worth noting that the witch is invariably represented as an old, ugly, crone, whereas women and monsters share an affinity in horror film and pose a threat to vulnerable male power.
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Elementary Students' Perspectives on a Curriculum for Literacy Education.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored students' perspectives about the experienced curriculum through the enactment of group interviews and revealed the key role students attributed to situated playful practice in the learning process, side by side with agency, collaboration and ICT mediation.
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Voices Yet to Be Heard: On Listening to the Last Speakers of Jewish Malayalam

TL;DR: In this paper, a preliminary attempt to describe and analyze the language still spoken by Kerala Jews in Israel, based on a language documentation project carried out in 2008 and 2009, is presented.
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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

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