Defining a grammar of radio telephony and emergencies

Authors

  • Mike Mc Grath

Abstract

This paper will attempt to present the language of air-ground communication, particularly that intended to be used in emergency or urgency situations, as a distinct grammatical system from Standard English. It will not deal with phraseology as such but demonstrate the ways in which pilots and controllers can use simplification and other strategies as a means of overcoming the deficiencies in the air-ground communication environment. It will place the use of such language techniques firmly within the framework of maintaining situational awareness and will further address the need to adopt specific training strategies based on a proper corpus of research into language use in the domain of English as a lingua franca in international aviation.

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Vol. 2 No. 1 (2011): New perspectives for aviation

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Aviation and Language

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