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Communicative Practices at Work : Multimodality and Learning in a High-Tech Firm / Jo Anne Kleifgen.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Language, Mobility and InstitutionsPublisher: Bristol ; Blue Ridge Summit : Multilingual Matters, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781783090457
  • 9781783090464
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 658.45
LOC classification:
  • P115.45 .K54 2013
  • P115.45
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- 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 -- Appendix -- References -- Index
Summary: 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.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- 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 -- Appendix -- References -- Index

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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