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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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Narrating Selves and the Literary in the Bible

Greger Andersson
- 01 Jan 2019 - 
TL;DR: The authors discusses how features in a narrative generate an understanding of its purpose and how this understanding affects our attitude when reading and interpreting a text, focusing on the biblias of the Bible.
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An exploration of the ways in which Ethiopian refugee people living in the UK understand extreme adversity

Hannah Eades
TL;DR: This article explored the ways in which four Ethiopian refugee people living in the UK understand their experiences of extreme adversity, and concluded that the narratives employed by its participants construct their experiences and responses to them in various ways which differ from dominant trauma narratives.
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Plagiarism or intertextuality

TL;DR: This article investigated the ways in which ten university undergraduates from diverse cultural and disciplinary backgrounds used the words and ideas of others in their written research-based assignments and found that students were confused by unified and autonomous notions of textual ownership and originality that failed to conceptualise authorial identity as sociohistorically constructed and multi-voiced.
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Matters of Opinion: A tool kit for analysing group discussions

TL;DR: This paper introduced some of the tools used for analysing group discussions, in conversation analysis, discourse analysis, pragmatics, and rhetoric, to identify uses of persuasive language such as commonplaces.