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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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A short cartography of genre studies in Brazil
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a cartography of Brazilian genre studies, exploring what they call Critical Genre Analysis (CGA) and its interdisciplinary research (e.g., Bonini, 2002; 2010; Meurer, 2002, 2005; Motta-Roth, 1998; 2008a), which draws mainly on John Swales' work to discuss the concept of genre references.
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Island writing, Creole cultures
TL;DR: This paper explored methodologies for comparing island writing by turning to contemporary literature in English from the Caribbean, Indian and Pacific archipelagoes, foregrounding the important contributions made by island writers to postcolonial discourse and literature.
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The More Knowledgeable Peer, Target Language Use, and Group Participation
TL;DR: In this article, a sociocultural study of first-year Vietnamese university students learning English was conducted, where the students were examined in two group settings, "unassisted" and "assisted," the first consisting of five students from the same class and the second consisting of four from different classes and a more knowledgeable student from a higher class.
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Freedom and Responsibility: The Aesthetics of Free Musical Improvisation and Its Educational Implications—A View from Bakhtin
TL;DR: In this article, a sketch of a Bakhtinian conception of improvisation is proposed, a sketch which emphasizes the cultivation of an attitude of consciousness that leads to an understanding of improvised music making as an obligation to explore the unknown, to search for freedom through the responsibility to attend to the uniqueness of irrevocable musical acts.