COMMUNICATIVE PRACTICES AT WORK

This book examines communicative practices in a circuit-board manufacturing plant in California's Silicon Valley, where the employee s come from diverse ethnolinguistic backgrounds, their activities involve the use of high-tech equipment and their practices are sha ped by, and sometimes contest, local and global forces. Analyses of the data show that learning occurs optimally when workers make s trategic use of both their home languages and English within an ecology of semiotic systems. The book demonstrates the importance of account...[Read more]