(Ling) Ethnographies of work on airline crew?

Wed Jul 30 09:26:46 UTC 2014

Hi all,
My PhD student Barbara Clark took an ethnographic and interactional linguistics look at flight crew discourse (flight attendants primarily) for her 2013 dissertation. She is a former flight attendant (and Michigan native who lives in England now). Her email: b.l.clark at qmul.ac.uk. Her reference list is vast and her contacts exceptional.

There's also Cotter and Cotter 1998 -- where pilot/field consultant father and linganth daughter examined  miscommunication between air-traffic controllers and pilots, noting points in the discourse routines where corrective action could be taken (and arguing that linguistic factors should be included in "human factors" training). I can send a PDF if interested.

Haven't seen Charlotte LInde mentioned here. fyi.

And if anyone needs field connections, my niece works for the air traffic control union in DC, Dad has FAA/EAA/Midwest-based general aviation connections, brother-in-law is commercial airline pilot, etc.

I will take this rare opportunity to say that my first flight on my 4th birthday was with a (retired WW2) pilot who had flown with Orville Wright (and had his flight log thus inscribed). That lineage is akin to the academic one with Edward Sapir (via Hinton, Langdon, and Haas).

Best,
Colleen

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Colleen Cotter
Linguistics Department
Queen Mary, University of London
Mile End Road
London E1 4NS
UK
email: c.m.cotter at qmul.ac.uk
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Subject: Re: (Ling) Ethnographies of work on airline crew?

Less linguistic but useful for the gender dimensions are:

Working the Skies: The Fast-Paced, Disorienting World of the Flight Attendant
Drew Whitelegg, NYU Press, Jun 1, 2007.

Femininity in Flight.  Kathleen Barry. Duke University Press, 2007.

William Leap also had an article on the language of a gay flight
attendant that I don't have the reference to off hand.  (Bill, are you
in this discussion?  Do you have the reference handy?)

Leila

On 7/29/14, Lucy Jones <Lucy.Jones at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
> You may also find the work of Barbara Clark useful - her PhD dissertation
> involved linguistic ethnography with airline crew.
>
> http://linguistics.sllf.qmul.ac.uk/people/barbara-clark
>
>
> Best,
>
> Lucy Jones
> School of English
> University of Nottingham
>
> queerlinglang.wordpress.com
>
>
>
> On 29/07/2014 04:57, "Bal Krishna Sharma" <bal.kri.sarma at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
>>There is Kimie Takahashi and Ingrid Piller's work on Japanese airlines
>>workers:
>>http://www.academia.edu/attachments/32304199/download_file?st=MTQwNjYwNjE0
>>NiwxODAuMjE2LjEyMS4yMyw0NDY2Ng%3D%3D&s=work_strip
>>
>>Best
>>
>>Bal Krishna
>>U of Hawaii at Manoa
>>
>>
>>On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 9:06 AM, E. Summerson Carr <esc at uchicago.edu>
>>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Nate:
>>>
>>> Of course, there is Arile Hochschild's classic study of flight
>>>attendants
>>> (alongside bill collectors).
>>>
>>> Though not primarily situated "in the pit" or "in the aisles," there is
>>> also Charles (and Margorie) Goodwin's work on airplane work.
>>>
>>> http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/clic/cgoodwin/96trans_vis.pdf
>>>
>>> http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/clic/cgoodwin/96for_plane.pdf
>>>
>>> Also, you may well want to check out Chandra Bhimull's dissertation--and
>>> any subsequent writings--on airline travel and empire:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/57716/bhimullc_1.p
>>>df?sequence=2
>>>
>>> Hope that helps a bit,
>>>
>>> Summerson
>>>
>>> E. Summerson Carr
>>> Associate Professor
>>> SSA, University of Chicago
>>> 773-834-5877
>>>
>>> ________________________________________
>>> From: Linguistic Anthropology Discussion Group [
>>> LINGANTH at listserv.linguistlist.org] on behalf of Woolard, Kathryn [
>>> kwoolard at UCSD.EDU]
>>> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2014 8:22 PM
>>> To: LINGANTH at listserv.linguistlist.org
>>> Subject: Re: (Ling) Ethnographies of work on airline crew?
>>>
>>> The anthropologist Ed Hutchins (UCSD Cog Sci) has done a lot of work on
>>> distributed cognition and communication in the cockpit, and other
>>>aspects
>>> of pilots' learning and cognition, contextually constructed. Click
>>>around
>>> the links on this part of his webpage:
>>>
>>> http://hci.ucsd.edu/hutchins/AviationResearch.html
>>>
>>>
>>> Kit Woolard
>>>
>>> From: Nathaniel Dumas <nadumas at UCSC.EDU<mailto:nadumas at UCSC.EDU>>
>>> Reply-To: Nathaniel Dumas <nadumas at UCSC.EDU<mailto:nadumas at UCSC.EDU>>
>>> Date: Monday, July 28, 2014 4:07 PM
>>> To: "LINGANTH at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG<mailto:
>>> LINGANTH at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG>" <LINGANTH at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
>>> <mailto:LINGANTH at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG>>
>>> Subject: (Ling) Ethnographies of work on airline crew?
>>>
>>> Dear Colleagues,
>>>
>>> I hope all is well. Does anyone know of any ethnographies, especially
>>>ling
>>> anth or discourse analytic ones, on the work lives of airline crew
>>>members,
>>> either ground or in-flight? I'm serving as an ethnographic consultant
>>>on a
>>> project that may find this information useful. If you do know of any
>>>such
>>> studies please email me offline at nadumas at ucsc.edu<mailto:
>>> nadumas at ucsc.edu>.
>>>
>>> Be well,
>>> Nate
>>>
>>> --
>>> Nathaniel Dumas
>>> Research Associate, Department of Anthropology
>>> University of Santa Cruz
>>> nadumas at ucsc.edu<mailto:nadumas at ucsc.edu>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>--
>>--------------
>>Bal
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Leila Monaghan, PhD
Department of Anthropology
Southern Illinois University Carbondale