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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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An illuminative participatory evaluation of the response ofQueensland schools to Indigenous literacy policies

TL;DR: In this paper, a naturalistic inquiry into the implementation of an Indigenous literacy policy in Queensland schools, written as a multi-voiced collective story, is presented, revealing a complex web of inter-related oppressive relationships in the Implementation of Partners for Success (Education Queensland, 2000a) in Queensland and how particular social categories of participants supported, resisted, and subverted them.
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Advances in cross‐boundary practice: inter‐logics as method

TL;DR: In this article, a method, drawing on forms of enquiry and description made possible through social constructionist vocabularies, including pragmatics, critical linguistics and dialogics, has been developed specifically to enable more satisfying co-operated action at the borders of communities and organisations where new forms of engagement and new possibilities for meaning and action can take place.
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The Impact of Youth Language on Linguistic Landscapes in Kenya and Tanzania

TL;DR: In this paper, a sociolinguistic approach that borrows from ideology, identity, language policy, and audience design approaches is used to investigate and report on how linguistic landscapes utilize youth language to mirror these changes in the major cities of Kenya and Tanzania.
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Narratives of women music teachers in Northern Ireland : beyond identity

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a survey of the literature in the field of bioinformatics and computer vision, including the following papers and presentations: http://www.biobased.org/