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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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Wisdom Management: Tensions Between Theory And Practice In Practice

TL;DR: A rare instance of management seeking to retain wisdom is a Canadian Public Service document, The Getting and Keeping of Wisdom as discussed by the authors, which is (computer assisted) text-analysed to determine the extent to which it meets nine criteria of wisdom derived from Aristotelian philosophy and recent psychological studies.
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The bargaining genre: A study of retail encounters in traditional Chinese local markets

TL;DR: The authors characterizes a spoken genre, bargaining, found in retail encounters in traditional markets in southern China and finds that participants behave primarily as outgroup persons seeking to transact business, and that bargaining constitutes a primary genre (Bakhtin 1986).
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“You Must Go Trek There”: The Persuasive Genre of Narration among Israeli Backpackers

Chaim Noy
- 01 Jan 2002 - 
TL;DR: The authors explored narratives of personal experience narrated by young Israeli travelers upon returning to their homeland from an extended backpacking journey, and examined the means by which the stories come to implicate and act upon their audience/listener.
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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