UID:
almafu_9958909716702883
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9781783090464
Series Statement:
Language, Mobility and Institutions
Content:
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.
Note:
Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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1. Introduction: Theorizing Communicative Practices at Work --
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2. Genesis, Inc. and Its People --
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3. Multimodal Interaction on the Assembly Floor --
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4. Doing Social Work: Power Relations in Interaction --
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5. Globalizing Forces and Quality-Control Certification --
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6. Learning-in-Practice --
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7. Conclusion: Towards a Comprehensive Understanding of Communicative Practices at Work --
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Appendix --
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References --
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Index
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.21832/9781783090464
URL:
https://doi.org/10.21832/9781783090464
URL:
https://doi.org/10.21832/9781783090464
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