Jo Anne Kleifgen

Communicative Practices at Work

Multimodality and Learning in a High-Tech Firm

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Channel View Publications
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 147mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9781783090457
• ISBN-10: 1783090456
• Artikelnr.: 38502598

Autorenporträt

Jo Anne Kleifgen is Professor Emerita of Linguistics and Education and a founder of the Center for Multiple Languages and Literacies at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her research has focused on multilingual/multimodal practices in school and the workplace. She has authored and edited several books, and her work is widely published in language journals and book chapters. She directed funded research projects on using new media to support Latinx adolescents' language and literacy development. Recently, she supervised the evaluation of a program bringing classrooms in the US and Middle-East/North Africa together for online collaborative learning. She has been a member of the Executive Committee of the International Linguistic Association since 1991, has served twice as president, and is its current vice president. She serves on several editorial boards and has been a visiting scholar at universities in the U.S. and abroad.