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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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Conceptualizing the Other in Intercultural Encounters: Review, Formulation, and Typology of the Other-Identity

TL;DR: The impact of migration on migrating individuals' cultural identity is one of the foci of intercultural communication research as mentioned in this paper, and many inter-cultural communication studies deliberately place et al.
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Beyond Understanding: Intercultural Teacher Empathy in the Teaching of English as an Additional Language

TL;DR: In the context of increasing linguistic and cultural diversity of learners in Australian education, this paper explored teacher empathy in a diverse tertiary education setting and developed a tentative, constructivist grounded theory of teacher empathy and interculturality.
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Student writing, assessment, and the motivated sign: finding a theory for the times

TL;DR: In this paper, the concept of the motivated sign is used to encourage teachers in higher education to reflect on the criteria they apply when assessing students' academic writing and identify complexities that evaded the teachers' assessments.
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“Why should I talk proper?”: Critiquing the requirement for spoken standard English in English secondary schools

Shaun Austin
TL;DR: The authors explored the relationship between identity and the linguistic style used by adolescent pupils during classroom presentations, with a focus on working-class pupils, and found that identity had a strong impact on the linguistic choices pupils made: when speaking as themselves they used more localised and informal linguistic variants; conversely, when they were playing a role they were able to adopt a wider range of linguistic features.
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Intertextuality and Intermediality as Cross-cultural Comunication Tools: A Critical Inquiry

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the reasons behind a renewed interest in intertextual and intermedial manifestations in cross- cultural communication, which is reflected in the increasing number of disciplinary publi- cations and conferences devoted to the topic.