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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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Proceedings from the Second International Interdisciplinary Conference on Perspectives and Limits of Dialogism in Mikhail Bakhtin, 3-5 June, 2009

Karin Junefelt, +1 more
TL;DR: The authors focused on the core of Bakhtin's theory, which concerns dialogue and dialogicality, and the conference themes reflected his notion that the "I" and the "self", the "you" and t...
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Premodern Chinese Weddings and the Divorce of Past and Present

TL;DR: Cum prorepserunt primis animalia terris, Mutum et turpe pecus, glandem atque cubilia propter Unguibus et pugnis, dein fustibus, atque ita porro Pugnabant armis, quae post fabricaverat usus: Donec verba, quibus voces sensusque notarent, Nominaque invenere: dehinc absistere bello, Oppida coeperunt munire, et ponere leges, Ne quis fur ess
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My Personal Responses to the School of the Dialogue of Cultures

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors challenge the uncritical use of Vygotsky and contrast Bibler's transformation of Hegel with that of Marx and of Derrida in order to question the notion that there could be a discrete set of fundamentally different logics.

Identidades en los márgenes de la superdiversidad:: prácticas comunicativas y escalas sociolingüísticas en los nuevos espacios educativos multilingües en Galicia

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze how social actors layer and project in a scaled way the new hierarchical, polycentric and translocal distribution of languages within the multilingual inteactions in order to observe the impact that these processes cause in the reproduction of identities.