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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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Constructing Genre: A Threefold Typology
TL;DR: The authors discussed the role of genre in a project that includes participants from different discourse communities to ensure that buildings and facilities are accessible to people with disabilities, where participants created a single text to assist multiple audiences.
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The narrative forms of postcolonial fiction
TL;DR: Ganapathi et al. as discussed by the authors classified Rushdie's and Tharoor's works as historiographical metafictions, a prominent subcategory of postmodernist writing.
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Representations of Muslim Cultures and Societies in Children's Literature as a Curriculum Resource for Ontario Classrooms: Promises and Prospects
TL;DR: The authors examines curriculum perceptions pertaining to Muslim children's literature and attempts to answer the major research question: "How can Ontario curriculum be enriched with curriculum resources comprising of Muslim children' literature?" This question touched several chords within curriculum studies, teacher development and schooling in general, therefore, an integrated framework combining insights and concepts from critical pedagogy, anti-racism, postcoloniality, multiculturalism, as well as, antiorientalism are applied to guide the research's data collection and analysis.
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Fanon, Memmi, Glissant and postcolonial writing
TL;DR: Fanon, Memmi and Glissant as mentioned in this paper are three creative thinkers who share a common Weltanschauung, without taking the more extreme definition from Freud that the latter is the unified solution as generated from a particular perspective of all the problems of the universe.
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The social construction of the Spanish nation : a discourse-based approach
TL;DR: The authors analyzed Spanish nation-building from a social-constructionist perspective assuming that nations are historically evolving social constructs and that nationhood is a largely modern phenomenon with pre-modern antecedents.