Communicative Practices at Work: Multimodality and Learning in a High-Tech Firm (Language, Mobility and Institutions)

This book examines communicative practices in a high-tech firm 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. The book demonstrates the importance of accounting for multilingual practices in studies of multimodality.