商品簡介
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.
作者簡介
Jo Anne Kleifgen is Professor of Linguistics and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, USA. Her publications include Educating Emergent Bilinguals: Policies, Programs, and Practices for English Language Learners (Teachers College Press, 2010) and Languages of Africa and the Diaspora: Educating for Language Awareness (Multilingual Matters, 2009).
