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Speech Genres and Other Late Essays
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THE POETICS OF KHIPU HIST O RIOGRAPHY : Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala's Nueva corónica and the Relación de los quipucamayos
TL;DR: The Andean khipu was a medium of colored knotted cords used to record different types of information in the pre-Columbian and colonial periods as mentioned in this paper, and numer- ous texts written in the colonial period claim to have relied on Khipu as sources of information.
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Genre as diversity, and rhetorical mode as unity in language use
TL;DR: The authors argue that rhetorical modes may be an important notion in genre studies and that it should thus be foregrounded, and illustrate the discussion by analysing the strategic use of clause relations as rhetorical modes occurring in a specific genre, namely, a fable.
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Disciplined to diversity: learning the language of multiculturalism
TL;DR: The authors argue that people produce modern identities vis-a-vis diversity through the use of language and the negotiation of its meaning, and demonstrate that people must acquire competence in their use of a particular multicultural vocabulary and rules of interaction.
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Engaging Secondary School Students in Extended and Open Learning Supported by Online Technologies.
Howard Nicholas,Wan Ng +1 more
TL;DR: The use of online technologies to extend the learning of a group of junior secondary school students after attending a Sun, Science, and Society camp and how they engaged with the extended and open learning supported by online technologies is investigated.
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Constructing Genre: A Threefold Typology
TL;DR: The authors discussed the role of genre in a project that includes participants from different discourse communities to ensure that buildings and facilities are accessible to people with disabilities, where participants created a single text to assist multiple audiences.
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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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Genre Repertoire: The Structuring of Communicative Practices in Organizations
Wanda J. Orlikowski,JoAnne Yates +1 more
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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.