Description |
1 online resource (viii, 230 pages) |
Series |
Pragmatics & beyond, 0922-842X ; new ser., v. 136 |
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Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 136
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Contents |
Linguistic Dimensions of Crisis Talk; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Towards an analysis of crisis talk; Discourse-related approaches; Linguistic and corpus methodology; Analysis of general dialogue properties; Analysis of particular dialogue properties; Select glossary of relevant aviation terms; Abbreviations; A key to the atomic representation of speech act types; Examples: Minimal sequences and their modifications; Two sample transcripts; Background information to samples; References; Subject index |
Summary |
This book offers an HPSG-based discourse grammar for a controlled language (Air Traffic Control) that allows the identification of well-formed discourse patterns. A formalisation of discourse theoretical structures that occur especially in crisis situations that involve potential aviation disasters is introduced. Of particular importance in this context are discourse sequences that help secure uptake among the crew and between crew and tower in order to coordinate actions that might result in avoiding a potential disaster. In order to describe the relevant phenomena, an extended HPSG formalism |
Notes |
Based on the author's doctoral thesis, Bielefeld University |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Dialogue analysis.
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Speech acts (Linguistics)
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Head-driven phrase structure grammar.
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Air traffic control -- Language
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REFERENCE.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Vocabulary.
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Dialogue analysis
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Head-driven phrase structure grammar
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Speech acts (Linguistics)
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Dialogen.
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Crisisbeheersing.
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2005048398 |
ISBN |
9789027294319 |
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9027294313 |
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902725379X |
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9789027253798 |
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9781588116420 |
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1588116425 |
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