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Speech Genres and Other Late Essays
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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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Genre Repertoire: The Structuring of Communicative Practices in Organizations
Wanda J. Orlikowski,JoAnne Yates +1 more
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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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Syntactic Variation and Linguistic Competence: The Case of Aave Copula Absence
TL;DR: This thesis explores the implications for competence theories of syntax of the data on variation found by sociolinguists working in the Labovian tradition, through a case study of variable copula absence in African American Vernacular English (AAVE).
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Six roles of documents in professionals' work
TL;DR: This study identifies six roles documents play in professionals' work, namely that documents serve as personal work files, as reminders of things to do, to share information with some yet withhold it from others, to convey meaning, to generate new meaning, and to mediate contacts among people.
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Daring the imagination: Unlocking voices of dissent and possibility in teaching
TL;DR: In this paper, Daring the imagination: Unlocking voices of dissent and possibility in teaching is discussed. But the authors focus on the role of student voices and do not discuss their role in teaching.
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Taking an elitist stance: ideology and the discursive production of social distinction
Adam Jaworski,Crispin Thurlow +1 more
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Techniques of Inattention: The Mediality of Loudspeakers in Nigeria
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the use of loudspeakers on churches and mosques in Nigeria and examine the medial form of the loudspeaker, how this medium technologizes urban space, and how urban residents generate cultural techniques to live with the sounds it produces.