TY - BOOK AU - Kleifgen,Jo Anne TI - Communicative Practices at Work: Multimodality and Learning in a High-Tech Firm T2 - Language, Mobility and Institutions SN - 9781783090457 AV - P115.45 .K54 2013 U1 - 658.45 PY - 2013///] CY - Bristol, Blue Ridge Summit : PB - Multilingual Matters, KW - Bilingual communication in organizations KW - Business communication KW - Language acquisition KW - Multilingualism KW - Social aspects KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Office Management KW - bisacsh N1 - 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; restricted access N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.21832/9781783090464 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781783090464 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781783090464/original ER -