INVESTIGADORES
DE- MATTEIS lorena Marta Amalia
artículos
Título:
Linguistic safety and syntactic patterns in Spanish pilot/controller radiotelephony
Autor/es:
DE- MATTEIS, LORENA M. A.
Revista:
Aviation in Focus
Editorial:
Pontifícia Universidade do Rio Grande do Sul
Referencias:
Lugar: Porto Alegre; Año: 2012 vol. 3 p. 19 - 43
ISSN:
2179-703X
Resumen:
Drawing on interactional sociolinguistics and institutional discourse analysis, we analyze ellipsis in Spanish pilot/controller (P/C) interaction in Argentina. We try to show how it contributes to achieve the institutional communicative goal of brevity, but can affect another radiotelephony premise in aviation: clarity. Speakers' choice of syntactical structures takes place in a highly regulated socio-technical setting, with a strong linguistic policy they are obligated to respect. Still, the analysis of ellipsis proves that speakers react to contextual information, adjusting their use of this resource to particular interactional needs and prioritizing clarity to shape a linguistically safe operational context while preserving institutional identities. Within human factors training, linguistic awareness programs including P/C syntax would enhance professional communicative competence as a non-technical skill in the aviation context.
