Linguistic dimensions of crisis talk : formalising structures in a controlled language /

Linguistic Dimensions of Crisis Talk 1
Editorial page 2
Title page 3
LCC data 4
Dedication 5
Table of contents 7
Acknowledgements 9
Towards an analysis of crisis talk 11
1.1. Objectives and requirements 13
1.2. The scenario: Air traffic control 16
Constraints and consequences 16
Sources of error in extra- and intra-cockpit communication 22
Cockpit voice recordings (CVRs) 35
1.3. Overview of presentation 37
Notes 38
References 1
Discourse-related approaches 41
2.1. Speech act theory 42
Austin: A seminal work 42
Searle: An elaboration 43
2.2. An illocutionary logic: Searle & Vanderveken 53
2.3. An alternative: Ross's performative analysis 55
2.4. Approaches to discourse structure 56
Notes 60
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Linguistic and corpus methodology 63
3.1. Formalisms, methods and linguistic theory 63
Deduction 66
Induction 67
Conclusion 69
3.2. Dialogues and theories: Some general considerations 69
3.3. Head-driven phrase structure grammar (hpsg) for illocutionary acts 73
A modified formalism 76
An alternative solution 81
3.4. Creating a crisis talk corpus 84
3.5. Linguistic annotation: Standards and schemata 87
Notes 96
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Analysis of general dialogue properties 97
4.1. Dialogue typology 99
4.2. Documenting and standardising the atc/cvr-data 102
Header of the atc/cvr-data 103
Footer of the atc/cvr-data 107
Body of the atc/cvr-data 107
4.3. xml-markup of the standardised data 124
4.4. Phases in aviation communication 129
Phases in the development of a crisis 129
Conversational phases 132
4.5. Discourse-control processes 134
Discourse-control processes in professional communication 138
Discourse-control processes in non-professional communication: Leaky points 140
Notes 142
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Analysis of particular dialogue properties 145
5.1. Identifying regularities 145
Decomposition of the dialogue 145
Decomposition and representation of speech acts 150
An alternative account of sequencing 152
Specification of the selected transcripts 158
Minimal sequences 160
Modifications of minimal sequences 162
5.2. Representation of an utterance sequence as an hpsg-based sign 168
5.3. Representation of an utterance-token as an hpsg-based sign 172
5.4. Implementation: xml as a denotational semantics for hpsg-based signs 177
5.5. Conclusion 182
Notes 186
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Select glossary of relevant aviation terms 187
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Abbreviations 193
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A key to the atomic representation of speech act types 195
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Examples: Minimal sequences and their modifications 197
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Two sample transcripts 203
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Background information to samples 219
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References 223
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Subject index 233
The series Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 241