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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
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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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Once Upon a Time there was a Nation: Narrative Conceptualization Analysis. The Concept of ‘Nation’ in the Discourse of Israeli Likud Party Leaders
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors claim that some of the miscommunication between political and academic discourse are caused by differences in constructing key concepts, and they suggest that whereas academic discourse tends to use "stable concepts" in which the signifier of the concept links constantly with a timeless "signified", politicians tend to use 'narrative concepts' which are special signs in which a signifier links with a'signified' story.
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Struggling with the African bildungsroman
TL;DR: The African bildungsroman is not, any more than its European predecessors, an ideo- logical instrument either for or against a specific form of modernity but rather a reflection on the possibilities of self-formation within a specific set of historical contexts as discussed by the authors.
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L'organisation temporelle des activités dans l'espace domestique. Interactions, matérialité, technologies
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the importance of travail interactionnel that les membres realisent chaque jour dans les foyers for ordonner and rendre intelligible leurs activites.
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Relevance: Language, Semantics, Philosophy
TL;DR: The literature within library and information science on relevance comes primarily from the subfields of information retrieval and information systems design, and has developed over time from an orthodoxy that has focused on relevance as an objective measure to a comprehension of the dynamic nature of relevance judgment.