24.4288, Books: Communicative Practices at Work: Kleifgen

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Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 09:42:58
From: Laura Longworth [marketing at multilingual-matters.com]
Subject: Communicative Practices at Work: Kleifgen

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Title: Communicative Practices at Work 
Subtitle: Multimodality and Learning in a High-Tech Firm 
Series Title: Language, Mobility and Institutions  

Publication Year: 2013 
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
	   http://www.multilingual-matters.com/

Book URL: http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781783090440 

Author: Jo Anne Kleifgen

Hardback: ISBN:  9781783090457 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 129.95
Hardback: ISBN:  9781783090457 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 89.95
Paperback: ISBN:  9781783090440 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 27.95
Paperback: ISBN:  9781783090440 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 39.95

Abstract:

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.

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Sociolinguistics

Written In: English  (eng)

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