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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sassen, Claudia.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 136.

Pragmatics & beyond, 0922-842X ; new ser., v. 136

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dialogue analysis.

Speech acts (Linguistics).

Head-driven phrase structure grammar.

Air traffic control--Language.

Air traffic control.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub., 2005.

Language Note:

English

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 is used. The extension concerns the capability of modelling speech acts as proposed by Searle & Vanderveken (1985). The grammar is modelled by employing XML as a denotational semantics and is applied to the corpus data. This work thus lays the foundation for the automatic recognition of discourse structures in aviation communication.

Contents:

Linguistic Dimensions of Crisis Talk

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Dedication

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

Towards an analysis of crisis talk

1.1. Objectives and requirements

1.2. The scenario: Air traffic control

Constraints and consequences

Sources of error in extra- and intra-cockpit communication

Cockpit voice recordings (CVRs)

1.3. Overview of presentation

Notes

References

Discourse-related approaches

2.1. Speech act theory

Austin: A seminal work

Searle: An elaboration

2.2. An illocutionary logic: Searle &amp

Vanderveken

2.3. An alternative: Ross's performative analysis

2.4. Approaches to discourse structure

Linguistic and corpus methodology

3.1. Formalisms, methods and linguistic theory

Deduction

Induction

Conclusion

3.2. Dialogues and theories: Some general considerations

3.3. Head-driven phrase structure grammar (hpsg) for illocutionary acts

A modified formalism

An alternative solution

3.4. Creating a crisis talk corpus

3.5. Linguistic annotation: Standards and schemata

Analysis of general dialogue properties

4.1. Dialogue typology

4.2. Documenting and standardising the atc/cvr-data

Header of the atc/cvr-data

Footer of the atc/cvr-data

Body of the atc/cvr-data

4.3. xml-markup of the standardised data

4.4. Phases in aviation communication

Phases in the development of a crisis

Conversational phases

4.5. Discourse-control processes

Discourse-control processes in professional communication

Discourse-control processes in non-professional communication: Leaky points

Analysis of particular dialogue properties

5.1. Identifying regularities

Decomposition of the dialogue

Decomposition and representation of speech acts.

An alternative account of sequencing

Specification of the selected transcripts

Minimal sequences

Modifications of minimal sequences

5.2. Representation of an utterance sequence as an hpsg-based sign

5.3. Representation of an utterance-token as an hpsg-based sign

5.4. Implementation: xml as a denotational semantics for hpsg-based signs

5.5. Conclusion

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

Subject index

The series Pragmatics &amp

Beyond New Series.

Notes:

Based on the author's doctoral thesis, Bielefeld University.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612156601

9781282156609

1282156608

9789027294319

9027294313

OCLC:

84860277