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

by Jo Anne Kleifgen

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783090448
• ISBN13: 9781783090440
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.7" x 8.1"