TY - BOOK ID - 40858931 TI - Communicative Practices at Work PY - 2013 SN - 1783090464 1783090472 9781783090464 1306137187 9781306137188 9781783090471 9781783090457 1783090456 9781783090440 1783090448 PB - Bristol Blue Ridge Summit DB - UniCat KW - Bilingual communication in organizations. KW - Business communication. KW - Language acquisition. KW - Multilingualism KW - Plurilingualism KW - Polyglottism KW - Language and languages KW - Acquisition of language KW - Developmental linguistics KW - Developmental psycholinguistics KW - Language development in children KW - Psycholinguistics, Developmental KW - Interpersonal communication in children KW - Psycholinguistics KW - Administrative communication KW - Communication, Administrative KW - Communication, Business KW - Communication, Industrial KW - Industrial communication KW - Communication KW - Communication in organizations KW - Social aspects. KW - Acquisition KW - Bilingual communication in organizations KW - Business communication KW - Language acquisition KW - Social aspects KW - E-books KW - Multilingualism Social aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:40858931 AB - 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. ER -