Japan's rapidly aging population and chronic labor shortages have led the country to consider increased reliance on foreign workers. The government promotes the cultivation of nihongo jinzai ‘Japanese language human resources’ (MOFA, 2013), that is, highly skilled foreign workers proficient in the de facto national language, but in reality, such ideal individuals are scarce. Workplaces thus must explore ways to accommodate workers with limited Japanese competence. By introducing a sequential and multimodal analysis of shift handover interaction between Japanese and foreign care workers at a geriatric facility, the current article critically evaluates the monolingual, logocentric ideology reflected in the ongoing national debate as well as in the institutional convention of information sharing. The examination of the ways in which these workers deploy multimodal semiotic resources for the fulfillment of their duty points to the need for reevaluation of conventional practices in favor of increased affordance of spatial repertoire.

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轮班移交交互中的文本，谈话和正文：老年护理工作的语言和多模式功能表

日本人口的迅速老龄化和长期的劳动力短缺使日本考虑增加对外国工人的依赖。政府促进种植日本红枣“日语人力资源”（MOFA，2013年），即精通事实上的本国语言的高技能外国工人，但实际上，这种理想的人很少。因此，工作场所必须探索容纳日文能力有限的工人的方法。通过对老年护理机构中日本人与外国护理人员之间的班次交接互动进行顺序和多模式分析，本篇文章对现行的全国性辩论以及信息共享的制度惯例中反映的单语，徽标中心思想进行了严格评估。对这些工人为履行职责而部署多式联运符号资源的方式的考察表明，有必要重新评估传统做法，以增加对空间曲目的负担。