TY - BOOK AU - Sassen,Claudia TI - Linguistic dimensions of crisis talk: formalising structures in a controlled language T2 - Pragmatics & beyond, SN - 9789027294319 (electronic bk.) AV - P95.455 .S277 2005eb U1 - 401/.41 22 PY - 2005/// CY - Amsterdam, Philadelphia PB - J. Benjamins Pub. KW - Dialogue analysis KW - Speech acts (Linguistics) KW - Head-driven phrase structure grammar KW - Air traffic control KW - Language KW - Analyse du dialogue KW - Actes de parole KW - Grammaire syntagmatique guid�ee par les t�etes KW - Circulation a�erienne KW - Contr�ole KW - Langage KW - REFERENCE KW - bisacsh KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES KW - Vocabulary KW - Dialogen KW - gtt KW - Crisisbeheersing KW - Electronic books KW - lcshgf N1 - Based on the author's doctoral thesis, Bielefeld University; Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 N2 - 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 UR - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=229825 ER -