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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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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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Modern Social Imaginaries

TL;DR: The Modern Moral Order and the Specter of idealism as discussed by the authors have been identified as the foundations of the modern social imagination, and the modern moral order has been called the "Social Imaginary".
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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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Communities of Addressing Practice? Address in Internet Forums Based in German-Speaking Countries

TL;DR: This article analyzed the forms of address in a corpus of readers' forums in online editions of German, Austrian and German-Swiss newspapers and found that more formal Sie (V) pronominal and nominal address forms are the dominant and sometimes only address forms found in the forums, contrary to frequent assumptions.
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Theoretical issues surrounding interdisciplinary interpenetration

TL;DR: Theoretical issues surrounding interdisciplinary interpenetration are discussed in this article, where Boundary Rhetorics and the Work of Interdisciplinarity are discussed.
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Exploring systemic positioning in everyday conversations in communities: an embodied reflexive inquiry

TL;DR: McNamee and Hosking as discussed by the authors explored embodied relational processes within the multiple complex dynamic of these conversations, unpacking our ways of "going on" together, focusing on reciprocal responses, my internal dialogue, as I respond to what has gone before, external moves within these relational unfolding conversational encounters.

Literary Theory and Computer Games

TL;DR: This paper is mostly concerned with narratological aspects of computer games, but also tries to define areas of inquiry for which the terminology of literary theory is not appropriate.