Communicative Practices at Work: Multimodality and Learning in a High-Tech Firm - Rilegato

Kleifgen, Jo Anne

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ISBN 10: 1783090456 ISBN 13: 9781783090457

Casa editrice: Multilingual Matters Ltd, 2013

Riassunto

This book examines communicative practices in a high-tech firm 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. The book demonstrates the importance of accounting for multilingual practices in studies of multimodality.

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Recensione:

This book offers a view of the exquisite complexity of the linguistic and interactional activities that create the mundane world of everyday work. Kleifgen crafts her analysis of multilingualism and multimodality in a high-tech workplace with the same care, precision and creativity as her subjects craft their circuit boards. It will stand as a landmark study for the fields of language in the workplace, workplace ethnography, and informal learning. --Charlotte Linde, NASA Ames Research Center, USA

In this brilliant and engaging study, Kleifgen does what few scholars of language and learning have done: show us how multiple languages and modes interact within a technology production site. With an ethnographic perspective, she provides a penetrating analysis of communication adaptivity in the fast-paced production of technological products. --Shirley Brice Heath, Stanford University, USA

L'autore:

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

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• Editore: Multilingual Matters Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1783090456
• ISBN 13: 9781783090457
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 200