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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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Language, Thinking and Embodiment: Bakhtin, Whorf and Merleau-Ponty

Hannele Dufva
TL;DR: The authors discuss the relationship between language, thinking and culture and aim to combine three different frameworks, including the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, the hypothesis of linguistic relativity, and the hypothesis for linguistic relativity.

Other voices, other sources

Jan Anward
TL;DR: Adelsward et al. as mentioned in this paper describe a dialog with Viveka Adelsward, an antal texter who skrivna av forskare som pa olika satt haft formanen att samarbeta med och sta i dialog.
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Constructing “Texts” and Making Inferences: Some Reflections on Textual Reality in Human Communication Research

TL;DR: Texts are places where power and weakness become visible and discussable, where learning and ignorance manifest themselves, where the structures that enable and constrain our thoughts and actions become palpable as mentioned in this paper.
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Translating Oral Literature in Indigenous Societies: Ethnic Aesthetic Performances in Multicultural and Multilingual Settings

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on translating oral literature in indigenous societies, especially in multilingual and multicultural areas such as, Northwestern California, where shared, regional material becomes ethnically marked when seemingly small changes are introduced.

Students’ and higher education stakeholders’ concepts of resilience in the context of innovation camps

TL;DR: In the context of higher education, students feel most threatened by ill-defined problems, unpredicted professional life situations which demand unscripted responses, and sustained relationships as discussed by the authors.