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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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Florida's Adolescent Literacy Policy: An Alternative Reading and Response

TL;DR: The authors constructed interpretations of the meanings conveyed by state-level discourse communities as they were manifested in the primary and secondary speech genres of Florida's adolescent literacy policy and found that state policy meanings convey multiple versions of literacy with a heavy focus on receptive aspects of literate practice.
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Organizational Records as Genres: An Analysis of the ‘Documentary Reality’ of Organizations from the Perspectives of Diplomatics, Records Management and Rhetorical Genre Studies

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the relationship of rhetorical genre studies with archival studies, and identify commonalities and differences between the two fields by complementing and expanding the diplomatics approach to the analysis of the documentary reality of organizations.

Análisis del discurso tecnocientífico que construye la muerte encefálica en un manual de coordinación de trasplantes

TL;DR: This article expound brain death as a technoscientific controversy and analyses the discourse that constructs brain death in a Organizacion Nacional de Trasplantes’ (ONT, Espana) transplant coordination handbook by using rhetoric analysis and function, variation and construction analysis.
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BODY TALk: NEW LANGUAGE FOR HOPI POTTERY THROUGH CULTURAL HERITAGE COLLABORATION

TL;DR: In this article, an innovative phase of collaboration in a cultural heritage project focused on a major museum collection to explore ways of representing cultural memory that privilege Hopi values in new forms of inscription, including accessing pottery aesthetics as an embodied language.
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Language learning, identity and globalization: Learners of Brazilian Portuguese in England and learners of English and Spanish in Brazil

TL;DR: For instance, this paper found that students have different perceptions about language learning due to their distinct linguistic backgrounds, context in which they live, their interests (both professional and personal), and their opportunities to interact, among other reasons for choosing to learn each language.
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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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