Description: Communicative Practices at Work : Multimodality and Learning in a High-Tech Firm, Paperback by Kleifgen, Jo Anne, ISBN 1783090448, ISBN-13 9781783090440, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Kleifgen (linguistics and education, Columbia U.) analyzes communicative practices in a circuit-board assembly plant in Silicon Valley with employees from diverse ethnolinguistic backgrounds. He considers multimodality, learning, and globalization in this social context, specifically the ways that employees learn through conjoint action, drawing on their languages and other semiotic modes of communication, such as writing, gestures, sounds, and images, and tools like software and circuit boards to accomplish their tasks, and how they reflect local-global linkages and tensions, particularly the company's involvement in the international market and the multilingual character of communication. He also considers the power relations in the workplace and the concept of learning-in-practice as employees pooled their knowledge and collaborated to find solutions to problems. He describes the theory behind these concepts, his rationale for conducting an ethnography, his fieldwork over seven years, the social alignments that occurred between workers, the connection between local communicative practices and wider social relations (focusing on quality control documents), and the educational implications of his study. Distributed in the US by UTP Distribution. Annotation ©2014 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()
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Book Title: Communicative Practices at Work : Multimodality and Learning in a
Number of Pages: 216 Pages
Publication Name: Communicative Practices at Work : Multimodality and Learning in a High-Tech Firm
Language: English
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Publication Year: 2013
Subject: Business Communication / General, Communication Studies, Industries / General, Technical & Manufacturing Industries & Trades, Office Management, Management, Linguistics / General, Workplace Culture
Item Height: 0.5 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 10 Oz
Author: Jo Anne Kleifgen
Item Length: 8.2 in
Subject Area: Technology & Engineering, Language Arts & Disciplines, Business & Economics
Item Width: 5.8 in
Series: Language, Mobility and Institutions Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
