Workplace Learning through Human-Machine Interaction in a Transient Multilingual Blue-Collar Work Environment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2286290 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daan Hovens (0000-0001-5181-6219, Maastricht University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 369-388 |
| Publication date | 2020-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1055-1360 • E-ISSN: 1548-1395 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/jola.12279 |
| OpenAlex | W3083599437 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 30 |
This article explores processes of jointly negotiating work practices (i.e., workplace learning) in a contemporary blue-collar work environment characterized by transience, language diversity, and limited opportunities for human-human interaction. The article is based on linguistic-ethnographic fieldwork in a metal foundry in the Dutch-German borderland, where many employees have temporary contracts and diverse language backgrounds, and where many production tasks are delegated to machines. The article shows that human-machine interaction, combined with a newcomer's ability to observe and hypothesize, can fulfill vital functions for workplace learning processes, while the temporariness of work relations can demotivate employees to invest in these processes
Blue collar · Business · Collar · Ethnography · German · Knowledge management · Linguistics · Negotiation · Political science · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Work (physics · Anthropology · Computer Science · Engineering · Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism
Working beside/s words
Anticipating structural changes? effects of automation and digitalization on cross-border commuting in low-skilled manual jobs
Language policy and linguistic landscaping in a contemporary blue-collar workplace in the Dutch–German borderland
How does perceived human-computer interaction affect employee helping behavior
Breakdowns and assemblages
Labour mobility across the Baltic Sea
Shaping technology/building society
Receptive Multilingualism
Posthumanist Applied Linguistics
The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception
Communities of Practice
Functional Pragmatics
Reassembling the Social
Ecologies of Inscription
Blue-collar workplace communicative practices
Linguistic diversity in the international workplace
Language, employment, and settlement
Human-Machine Reconfigurations
Learning the Trade
Expletives as solidarity signals in FTAs on the factory floor
Having a laugh at work
Tracing the emergence of a community of practice
Historical context and intercultural communication
Situated Learning
Professional Vision
Language Management/Labor
Transient Multilingual Communities as a Field of Investigation
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |