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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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Between Relativism and Absolutism: Towards an Emergentist Definition of Meaning Potential

TL;DR: The meaning-as-a-potential (SOP) approach as discussed by the authors is a critique of those mainstream theories of semantics and pragmatics which take for granted the idea that a linguistic expression has an invariant linguistic meaning or a semantic representation independent of actual situated language use.
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Citizenship in the classroom : Transferring and transforming transcultural values

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present and discuss a report from a Comenius 2.1 project, aimed at developing teachers' interpersonal, intercultural, social and civic competence.
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The Use of Reflective Journals in Initial Teacher Training

TL;DR: The authors found that each student internalized limiting concepts of self and others, and each student had difficulty making connections to textual materials, each student was especially hard pressed by the need to think and speak quickly.
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New Media and Religious Transformations in Africa

TL;DR: Nyamnjoh et al. as discussed by the authors presented a case study of Pentecostal Discourse Communities of SMS Users in South-western Nigeria, focusing on the role of SMS users in the regulation of religious broadcasting.