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I am sitting in a downtown café with my friend Mike, a functional linguist, trying to explain my attempt at language-based analysis of two songs for this chapter (Fang & Schleppegrell, 2008). Mike is also a teacher and a poet; I can talk with him about mixing disciplines, mixing genres, and making sense of the creative beats thumping in my head. That day, even though Mike told me my language analysis was well done, the most valuable part of our conversation was exactly that: the conversation.
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Santiago, I.C. (2016). Mix it Up. In: Johnson, L.L., Goering, C.Z. (eds) Recontextualized. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-606-4_4
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