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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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English(es) in Urban Contexts: Politics, Pluralism, and Possibilities

TL;DR: The authors argue that English education does not always reflect the Englishes city students travel with, and that the exclusive foci on the study of high dialects can bastardize a language's fluidity, marginalize its speakers who embody the socio-ideological contradictions between the present and the past, between differing epochs of the past and between different socioideological groups in the present, between tendencies, schools, circles and so forth.

Reflections on sociomateriality and dialogicality in organization studies: from ‘inter- ‘to ‘intra-thinking’... in performing practices

John Shotter
TL;DR: The notion of intra-action, as opposed to the usual notion of interaction, represents a profound conceptual shift as mentioned in this paper, and it is through specific agential intra-actions that the boundaries and properties of the 'components' of phenomena become determinate and that particular embodied concepts become meaningful.
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Negotiating face in feedback conferences:a linguistic ethnographic analysis

TL;DR: The authors examined the negotiation of face in post observation feedback conferences on an initial teacher training program and found that participants also interact in ways that challenge the generic norms, some of which might be considered more conventionally face attacking.
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John Swales's approach to pedagogy in Genre Analysis: A perspective from 25 years on ☆

TL;DR: This article reviewed the influence of the Genre Analysis: English in academic and research settings and considered how some of Swales's major ideas might be developed in the light of present day theory.
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Hokyoung Ryu
TL;DR: In a recent survey, Altman Weil et al. as mentioned in this paper found that the most promising jobs for 2011 were Paralegal Roles and Responsibilities at Law Firms.