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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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Constructing Narratives of Resilience with High-Risk Youth

TL;DR: In this paper, an alternative approach to therapy with high-risk youth who are difficult to engage in treatment is discussed, where therapeutic conversations are used to assist youth in their construction of health-enhancing narratives of resilience.
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Beyond Dichotomy: An Embodied Active Agent for Cultural Psychology

TL;DR: Boesch's developmentally oriented cultural action theory is explored in the context of relational-developmental metatheory as discussed by the authors, which provides an avenue for moving beyond either/or debates to an inclusive understanding concerning the nature of developmental change, expressive-constitutive and instrumental-communicative fcunctions of action.
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Sustaining group cognition in a math chat environment

TL;DR: This paper identifies a pattern of exchange of postings that it terms math proposal adjacency pair, and describes its characteristics, and adapts this approach to investigating mathematical problem-solving communication and to the computer-mediated circumstances of online chat.
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Defining the Genre of the "Case Write-Up"

TL;DR: This paper used discourse-based interviews with genre experts (MBA students and instructors at a case-based business school) to find that the write-up prepares students for classroom performance as problem-solvers, managers who can act in business situations, and disciplinary thinkers who can apply aca- demic knowledge to the real world.
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“What you'll say is … ”: represented voice in organizational change discourse

TL;DR: This article examined how organizational actors draw on and negotiate historical texts, weave them with contemporary ones, and transform them into future discourses, and examined how this practice occurs discursively as members in a high-tech corporation conduct an organizational change.
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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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