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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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Ancestral genres of mathematical graphs

TL;DR: The authors argue that Cartesian graphs are freighted with cultural, bodily and cosmological resonances and that these associations accrue via the ancestral tree of the tree of knowledge and knowledge.

Tasks and Talk: The Relationship Between Teachers' Goals and Student Discourse

Al Rudnitsky
TL;DR: This paper found that student discourse was almost entirely oriented toward producing good products with little thinking aimed at exploring the meanings and relationships among content, and redesigning the nature of classroom tasks, by presenting students with problems that necessitate thinking about how content is interrelated, results in readily discernable deepening of student discourse.
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Secondary English Teachers' Perspectives on the Design and Use of Classroom Websites.

TL;DR: Qualitative methods are used, including computer-mediated interviews and document analysis, to explore secondary English teachers’ perspectives on how they designed and used classroom websites to support their pedagogy.