Communicative Practices at Work

Multimodality and Learning in a High-Tech Firm

Jo Anne Kleifgen (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

216 Seiten

2013
Multilingual Matters (Verlag)
978-1-78309-044-0 (ISBN)

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This book examines communicative practices in a high-tech firm in California's Silicon Valley, where employees come from diverse ethnolinguistic backgrounds and their practices are shaped by, and sometimes contest, local and global forces. It demonstrates the importance of accounting for multilingual practices in studies of multimodality.

This book examines communicative practices in a circuit-board manufacturing plant in California's Silicon Valley, where the employees come from diverse ethnolinguistic backgrounds, their activities involve the use of high-tech equipment and their practices are shaped by, and sometimes contest, local and global forces. Analyses of the data show that learning occurs optimally when workers make strategic use of both their home languages and English within an ecology of semiotic systems. The book demonstrates the importance of accounting for multilingual practices in studies of multimodality. Through detailed ethnography it brings the reader to a better understanding of learning-in-practice in work environments, where the complexities and accelerated growth of new technologies along with a globalized world produce new forms of multilingual and multimodal communication.

Jo Anne Kleifgen is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, USA. Her publications include Educating Emergent Bilinguals: Policies, Programs, and Practices for English Language Learners (with Ofelia García; Teachers College Press, 2010) and Languages of Africa and the Diaspora: Educating for Language Awareness (with George C. Bond; Multilingual Matters, 2009).

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction: Theorizing Communicative Practices at Work

2. Genesis, Inc. and Its People

3. Multimodal Interaction on the Assembly Floor

4. Doing Social Work: Power Relations in Interaction

5. Globalizing Forces and Quality Control Certification

6. Learning-in-Practice

7. Conclusion: Towards a Comprehensive Understanding of Communicative Practices at Work

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.10.2013
Reihe/Serie	Language, Mobility and Institutions
Verlagsort	Bristol
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	284 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Berufspädagogik
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management
ISBN-10	1-78309-044-8 / 1783090448
ISBN-13	978-1-78309-044-0 / 9781783090440
Zustand	Neuware