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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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"I Think" vs. "The Thought Tells Me": What Grammar Teaches Us about the Monastic Self

TL;DR: The authors analyzes linguistic constructions of thinking, the ways in which this state or activity is "semanticized" or construed in language, in order to uncover early monastic perceptions of the self and how these are formed and employed.

Ethics, rhetoric, and the self as an expanding web of conversations

TL;DR: This article propose a re-conceptualization of the self as an ever-expanding web of conversations and draw from a variety of foundational studies to theorize that the self and its interests are at least partially constructed and shaped by conversations the self has with others.
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Discourse Parsing of Contentious, Non-Convergent Online Discussions

TL;DR: The measure of a successful discussion is redefined, and a novel discourse annotation schema which reflects a hierarchy of discursive strategies is developed, which paves the way for a number of downstream tasks and applications.
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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