16.2938, Books: Discourse Analysis/Pragmatics: Sassen

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Date: 05-Oct-2005
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: Linguistic Dimensions of Crisis Talk: Sassen 

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Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 12:52:47
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: Linguistic Dimensions of Crisis Talk: Sassen 

Title: Linguistic Dimensions of Crisis Talk 
Subtitle: Formalising structures in a controlled language 
Series Title: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 136  

Publication Year: 2005 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=P%26bns%20136 

Author: Claudia Sassen, Dortmund University

Hardback: ISBN: 902725379X Pages: ix, 230 Price: Europe EURO 110.00
Hardback: ISBN: 1588116425 Pages: ix, 230 Price: U.S. $ 132.00

Abstract:

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. 

Table of contents

1. Towards an analysis of crisis talk  6-29  
2. Discourse-related approaches  31-51  
3. Linguistic and corpus methodology  53-86  
4. Analysis of general dialogue properties  87-133  
5. Analysis of particular dialogue properties  135-176  
Appendices  177-211  
References  213-222  
Index  223-230 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Linguistic Theories
                     Pragmatics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Written In: English  (eng)

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