Nevile2006
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Nevile2006 |
| Author(s) | Maurice Nevile |
| Title | Making sequentiality salient: and-prefacing in the talk of airline pilots |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Airline cockpit, Sequence organization, Prefaces |
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| Year | 2006 |
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| Journal | Discourse Studies |
| Volume | 8 |
| Number | 2 |
| Pages | 279–302 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1177/1461445606061797 |
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Abstract
This article uses transcriptions from video recordings of airline pilots at work, on actual flights, to consider some locations and the interactional significance of a feature of routine talk in the airline cockpit: and-prefaced turns. As pilots’ work is formally organized for them as many discrete and ordered tasks, and-prefacing is a local means for maintaining an ongoing sense of their conduct of a flight as a whole. By and-prefacing their talk, pilots present some new talk or task as connected and relevantly next in a larger macro-sequence of work for their flight. And-prefacing is evidence of pilots’ orientation to a sense of sequence that can extend well beyond pairs of turns at talk and/or non-talk activities, or even a series of such paired sequences. It allows pilots to make salient the sequentiality of their work where the officially prescribed wordings they must use can leave this implicit.
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