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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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Competitive communities of practice, knowledge sharing, and Machiavellian participation: a case study

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the emergence of Machiavellian behaviours in a Community of Practice (CoP) in a large processing plant in the Middle Eastern Kingdom of Bahrain and found that TMT intervention change the dynamics of CoPs, reducing knowledge sharing and collaboration among community members.
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They will come from the other side of the sea: Prophecy, ethnogenesis, and agency in Yaqui narrative

TL;DR: For Mexico's Yaqui Indians, ethnic identity is represented and renegotiated in narrative moments as mentioned in this paper, and the process of narrative self-fashioning through the lens of the "Talking Tree" is examined.
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Moving Stories: Displacement and Return in the Narrative Production of Yaqui Identity

TL;DR: Among the Yaqui Indians of Mexico, discourses that inscribe ethnicity connect space, place, and history as mentioned in this paper and argue that identity and concepts of "homeland" are imagined through narratives about movement.
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A Socio-Cognitive Approach to Factive Presupposition and Epistemic Modality in Hillary Clinton's Political Discourse: Tunisia's Democratic Transition as a Case Study

TL;DR: In this paper, a socio-cognitive approach was applied to analyze Hillary Clinton's speeches between January 2011 and December 2012, revealing that factive presupposition, epistemic modality and evidential verbs reveal the speaker's strong personal commitment to the truth value of her propositions.