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

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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"

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