FW: Re: (Ling) Ethnographies of work on airline crew?

Thu Jul 31 20:11:13 UTC 2014

Folks,

The sender of this message was unable to post so I am forwarding it along.

Ron Kephart

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From: "Kleifgen, JoAnne" <Kleifgen at exchange.tc.columbia.edu<mailto:Kleifgen at exchange.tc.columbia.edu>>
To: LINGANTH at listserv.linguistlist.org<mailto:LINGANTH at listserv.linguistlist.org>
Cc:
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 11:13:41 -0500
Subject: Re: (Ling) Ethnographies of work on airline crew?
Here is the reference for Charlotte Linde's work. Glad she was finally
noted!
Linde, C. (1988) The quantitative study of communicative success:
Politeness and accidents in aviation discourse. Language in Society 17 (3),
375-399.
Jo Anne Kleifgen

On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 4:26 AM, Colleen Cotter <c.m.cotter at qmul.ac.uk<mailto:c.m.cotter at qmul.ac.uk>>
wrote:

> 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<mailto: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
>
> ============================
> Colleen Cotter
> Linguistics Department
> Queen Mary, University of London
> Mile End Road
> London E1 4NS
> UK
> email: c.m.cotter at qmul.ac.uk<mailto:c.m.cotter at qmul.ac.uk>
> ________________________________________
> From: Linguistic Anthropology Discussion Group <
> LINGANTH at listserv.linguistlist.org<mailto:LINGANTH at listserv.linguistlist.org>> on behalf of Leila Monaghan <
> leila.monaghan at GMAIL.COM<mailto:leila.monaghan at GMAIL.COM>>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2014 5:54 PM
> To: LINGANTH at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG<mailto:LINGANTH at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG>
> 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<mailto: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<http://queerlinglang.wordpress.com>
> >
> >
> >
> > On 29/07/2014 04:57, "Bal Krishna Sharma" <bal.kri.sarma at GMAIL.COM<mailto: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<mailto: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<tel:773-834-5877>
> >>>
> >>> ________________________________________
> >>> From: Linguistic Anthropology Discussion Group [
> >>> LINGANTH at listserv.linguistlist.org<mailto:LINGANTH at listserv.linguistlist.org>] on behalf of Woolard, Kathryn [
> >>> kwoolard at UCSD.EDU<mailto:kwoolard at UCSD.EDU>]
> >>> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2014 8:22 PM
> >>> To: LINGANTH at listserv.linguistlist.org<mailto: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><mailto:nadumas at UCSC.EDU<mailto:nadumas at UCSC.EDU>>>
> >>> Reply-To: Nathaniel Dumas <nadumas at UCSC.EDU<mailto:nadumas at UCSC.EDU><mailto: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><mailto:
> >>> LINGANTH at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG<mailto:LINGANTH at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG>>" <
> LINGANTH at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG<mailto:LINGANTH at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG>
> >>> <mailto: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><mailto:
> >>> 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><mailto:nadumas at ucsc.edu<mailto:nadumas at ucsc.edu>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>--
> >>--------------
> >>Bal
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> Leila Monaghan, PhD
> Department of Anthropology
> Southern Illinois University Carbondale
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Jo Anne Kleifgen, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Education
Teachers College, Columbia University

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