Discourse “Radiotelephony of Civil Aviation”: psycholinguistic aspect

Abstract

The article focuses on psycholinguistic aspects of the discourse “Radiotelephony of civil aviation” (RTF). The relevance of the research is related to the key role that this discourse plays in ensuring flight safety. Psycholinguistic analysis of radiotelephony allowed us to prove its discursive nature based on procedural, interactive, and real-time attributes. The RTF discourse is defined as a closed, narrow-professional, institutional and dynamic type. This discourse is intentional and focused on safe operation of flight; conventional, limited by a set of stereotyped phrases enshrined in regulatory documents and obligatory for radiotelephony participants’ use, by strict regulation of radiotelephony procedures at all stages of flight. We determined that RTF discourse users as representatives of a certain professional space could realize themselves in a limited set of communicative roles. Communicative process “pilot – air traffic controller” is based on the “circular model”, since one-way communication in this type of discourse is not provided for. The “status-role” relations of RTF participants are primarily realized by means of the binary opposition “the initiator of the message” – “the executor / non-executor of the requested action”. Main speech functions realized in RTF discourse are informative and regulatory.
 RTF discourse is a “language code”, since information transmitted in it is understandable only to the actors of aviation community. Non-compliance with norms of this language code use, as well as a number of psycho-linguistic, psycho-physiological, and extra-linguistic factors lead to disruption of information coding / decoding processes, cause communicative failures, become concomitant factors of aviation accidents.
 Analysis of psycholinguistic features of RTF discourse, nature and causes of RTF communication failures, and psycho-physiological features of pilot in-flight activity (information overloading, high tempo of work due to time limits, work in stressful conditions) allowed us to determine types of exercises facilitating the process of future pilots training to cope with real difficulties of professional communication in RTF discourse.

Professionally Oriented English Teaching of Future Aviation Industry Professionals

“…Some authors worked over recommendations for Training Course for Teachers of Aviation Technical English but do not present the communicative training method or exercises. The typology of O. Kovtun [27] is very useful for the choice of the most appropriate exercises to use in the context of communicative and competence approach, which were leading within our research.…”

“…The very interesting complex of exercises was developed by Ukrainian investigator O. Kovtun [27]. In the case of the of Aviation English teachers, the scientist suggested the following typology of exercises will be effective in professionally oriented English learning.…”

“…The inability to solve these tasks correctly and promptly (taking into account the expeditious index) indicates the need for further work on forming, adjusting or improving the ability to operate the RTF discourse. Self-reflection and assessment become powerful factors for motivation of students in this context [27].…”

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“…The dynamic development of modern Ukrainian scientific terminology is actualised through the implementation of numerous comparative studies in linguistics (Zelenko, 2010;Ivashchenko, 2013;Selivanova, 2008;Goddard & Wierzbicka, 2014;Dressler et al, 2010), in the pedagogical field (Lokshina, 2015;Melnyk, 2017;Pukhovska, 2012;Bray et al, 2000;Cowen, 2000;Gonzalez, & Wagenaar, 2003) and psycholinguistics (Bogush & Kovtun, 2019;Kharchenko, 2017;Zasekina, 2016). The intensification of comparative research of Ukrainian scientists in the field of education is due to the fact that the professional training of teachers in Europe and the world in recent decades is a valuable source for thorough analysis, rational and comprehensive understanding.…”