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Maurice Nevile, Beyond the black box: Talk-in-interaction in the airline cockpit

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 May 2007

Lorena M. A. de-Matteis
Lorena M. A. de-Matteis
Affiliation:
Humanities, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahía Blanca – CP8000 Argentina, lmatteis@uns.edu.ar
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Maurice Nevile, Beyond the black box: Talk-in-interaction in the airline cockpit. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. Pp. xvii, 245. Hb $94.95.

Maurice Nevile, from the Australian National University, examines the routine interaction between pilots in the airline cockpit, drawing on several related theoretical approaches to talk-in-interaction, such as ethnomethodology, conversation analysis, and institutional discourse analysis. In chapter 1, “The workplace as social interaction,” Nevile reviews the theoretical background on workplace and institutional discourse as well as some of the most significant articles in the literature about aviation communications, in particular about interaction in the airline cockpit. In this sense, Nevile's work establishes a different orientation since, as he points out, previous work on this type of institutional discourse has focused on critical situations, accidents, and incidents instead of routine interaction, with the result that

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Language in Society , Volume 36 , Issue 3 , July 2007 , pp. 440 - 445
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© 2007 Cambridge University Press

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