Communicative Practices at Work

Multimodality and Learning in a High-Tech Firm

AvJo Anne Kleifgen

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2013-10-28
Mått:148 x 210 x 17 mm
Vikt:386 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Language, Mobility and Institutions
Antal sidor:216
Förlag:Channel View Publications Ltd
ISBN:9781783090457

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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).

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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.

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Acknowledgments1. Introduction: Theorizing Communicative Practices at Work2. Genesis, Inc. and Its People3. Multimodal Interaction on the Assembly Floor4. Doing Social Work: Power Relations in Interaction5. Globalizing Forces and Quality Control Certification6. Learning-in-Practice7. Conclusion: Towards a Comprehensive Understanding of Communicative Practices at Work