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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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Developing Academic Literacy and Voice: Challenges Faced by A Mature esl Student and Her Instructors

TL;DR: This article examined the challenges that a mature ESL student and her instructors in a university course on Spanish Language Media face as they co-construct a common understanding of academic literacy and voice in an undergraduate general studies program offered by a university in Western Massachusetts.
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Krik? Krak! : exploring the potential of creative life writing for opening dialogic space and increasing personal freedom

TL;DR: This article explored the relationship between memory and imagination through creative life writing and its potential for personal freedom, focusing on what happens when writers enter into a creative relationship with their life stories, and found that through the process of writing the writers discovered a sense of self that was multiple and embodied, and the notion of finding a voice in the creative writing process was intrinsic to the participants' experience of finding personal freedom.
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Can restorative justice promote social justice

TL;DR: In this article, a case is presented for restorative justice to contribute to social justice or only to procedural justice, and the authors present a case where restorative healing can be used to improve procedural justice.
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Organized Leadership for Equitable Change: Union-active Teachers Dedicated to Social Justice

TL;DR: Goodson et al. as discussed by the authors used a critical constructionist perspective to analyze 25 career history interviews with teachers, staff and elected officials affiliated with the British Columbia Teachers' Federation between 1967 and 2007, and found that successive generations of union-involved activists dedicated to labour solidarity, feminism, multiculturalism, anti-colonialism and anti-homophobia used networks of like-minded colleagues to counter bureaucratic norms within their organization, the education system and society.
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A rhetorical and comparative study of the victory speeches of Barack Obama and Mircea Geoană

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the political discourses of two presidential candidates, Barack Obama and Mircea Geoana (the Romanian Social Democrat party leader), in a comparative study which also seeks to remind the reader of the overwhelming and manipulative influence of both PR and media on society.
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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