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

✍ Scribed by Jo Anne Kleifgen

Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Leaves: 209
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book examines communicative practices in a high-tech firm in California's Silicon Valley, where employees come from diverse ethnolinguistic backgrounds and their practices are shaped by, and sometimes contest, local and global forces. It demonstrates the importance of accounting for multilingual practices in studies of multimodality.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Theorizing Communicative Practices at Work
2. Genesis, Inc. and Its People
3. Multimodal Interaction on the Assembly Floor
4. Doing Social Work: Power Relations in Interaction
5. Globalizing Forces and Quality-Control Certification
6. Learning-in-Practice
7. Conclusion: Towards a Comprehensive Understanding of Communicative Practices at Work
Appendix
References
Index

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