Existing Controlled Languages for Technical Documents

Crabbe, Stephen

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-52745-1_2

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“…Several decades later, in an effort to make communication more effective and to facilitate translation activities, companies worldwide created other controlled languages, such as Caterpillar Fundamental English (1972), Perkins Approved Clear English (1980), Ericsson English (1983), Nortel Standard English (1993 and Bull Controlled English (1993), whose features are discussed in Crabbe (2017). Although some of them considered other linguistic characteristics 6 , such as the content-load of phrases, all these controlled languages follow a very similar pattern to the Basic English first proposed by Ogden, and were disseminated in Europe and in the United States mostly due to the widespread diffusion of technical documents ("technology-related publications") during the industrial revolution, first in Britain, then in the United States and in Germany (CRABBE, 2017).…”

Section: Aviation and Aeronautical Languages: From Controlled Languagmentioning

confidence: 88%

Aeronautical Meteorology in Aeronautical Language and in Aviation Language: a hybrid field?

Peixoto¹,

Pimentel

2020

TheESP

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Although Aeronautical Meteorology language is not generally regarded as standard communication between air traffic controllers and pilots, it plays an important role in Air Traffic Control (ATC) communication since it comprises phraseology and plain language used to communicate weather phenomena which interfere in aviation operations. Then, this paper focuses on the meteorology terminology used by Brazilian experts and discusses whether Aeronautical Meteorology is a hybrid field. Based on the theory of lexical semantics for terminology proposed by L'Homme (2020), the syntactic and semantic properties of a small set of Portuguese terms were analyzed in two separate textual corpora, i.e. a corpus representative of Aviation language and a corpus representative of Aeronautical language. For that, the combinatorics of terms were examined by means of a concordancing tool and were categorized by means of semantic labels. Quantification and comparison of the results obtained seem to suggest that the behavior of the terms in the two corpora share a fair amount of similarities.

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Section: Aviation and Aeronautical Languages: From Controlled Languagmentioning

confidence: 88%

Aeronautical Meteorology in Aeronautical Language and in Aviation Language: a hybrid field?

Peixoto¹,

Pimentel

2020

TheESP

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“…Training and safety of the staff, marketing materials, documentation, approval of supervisory authorities, delivery of services, and support of several languages are crucial. In the enterprises manufacturing industrial products, in general, there is a need for translation services: translation of documents; verbal translation services; translation of patents; localization of e-learning and training courses; translation of sites; implementation of international marketing; call center services; juridical support services; recruitment services; and content preparation [29].…”

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Language Industry: Opportunities, Perspectives and Problems

Alguliyev¹,

Mahmudov²

2018

JPIS

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How to Write (Science) Better. Simplified English Principles in a Skill-Oriented ESP Course

Śleszyńska

2021

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric

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Teaching writing to doctoral students or academics at a technical university is a challenging task. Because they need to publish their research findings in English to pursue academic careers, they are usually highly motivated and expect a lot of the class. Their language competences, however, very often lack enough proficiency and may contribute to manuscript rejection. The paper focuses on language issues based on the rules of controlled natural languages (CNLs) and guidelines of Plain English. It shows how employing these issues improves grammatical quality and readability of science-oriented written texts. The paper describes four principles: removing nominalisation and using the so-called strong verbs to make the message simpler and more direct; combining nouns in strings to express complex ideas economically; applying grammatical consistency for coordinate elements in sentences to make them less chaotic; and reducing wordiness to obtain a more precise and comprehensible piece of writing. Sample phrases and sentences from authentic student writing as well as their improved versions are provided to each of the guidelines so that a reader has a deeper insight into how the principles work in a specialist context. Because problems with, for example, research papers, grant proposals or reports are common to various disciplines and at various levels, the Author of the paper draws conclusions that these principles should be implemented not only in a technical but also legal, medical and business writing course offered by English teachers to both young researchers and experienced scientists.

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Existing Controlled Languages for Technical Documents

Cited by 4 publications

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Aeronautical Meteorology in Aeronautical Language and in Aviation Language: a hybrid field?

Aeronautical Meteorology in Aeronautical Language and in Aviation Language: a hybrid field?

Language Industry: Opportunities, Perspectives and Problems

How to Write (Science) Better. Simplified English Principles in a Skill-Oriented ESP Course

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