Communicative Practices at Work : Multimodality and Learning in a High-Tech Firm : (Language, Mobility and Institutions, 1)

Kleifgen, Jo Anne

ISBN 10: 1783090448 / ISBN 13: 9781783090440

Editore: Multilingual Matters, 2013

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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.

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• Titolo: Communicative Practices at Work : Multimodality and Learning in a High-Tech Firm : (Language, Mobility and Institutions, 1)
• Editore: Multilingual Matters
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1783090448
• ISBN 13: 9781783090440
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: Brand New

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Riassunto

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.

Informazioni sugli autori

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).

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).

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).