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T1 Characterizing aviation maintenance manuals written in the controlled language ASD-STE100 as a genre: a corpus analysis
A1 Díaz Galán, Ana Candelaria
A2 Filología Inglesa y Alemana
A2 Instituto Universitario de Ling¿üística Andrés Bello. ULL
K1 controlled natural language ASD-STE100
K1 instructional genres
K1 technical genres
K1 maintenance manuals
K1 rhetorical structure.
AB The texts associated with aircraft maintenance are fundamental in the maintenance process and in aircraft security. Aviationmaintenance manuals ‒the core of this documentation‒ have to comply with regulations concerning content, format and expression. Toensure uniformity, manuals abide by a specification which regulates writing practices accommodating them to the controlled naturallanguage ASD-STE100, a simplified version of English used as a standard in the industry. Through the qualitative analysis of a corpusof maintenance texts, this paper characterizes aviation instructions manuals as a genre by (i) illustrating the most relevant restrictionsimposed by the specification and their implementation at the surface levels glossed in the specification and (ii) providing a descriptionof the rhetorical macrostructure of instructional texts. The analysis reveals discrepancies between actual use and the rules whichconcern lexical, phrasal or sentential units; compliance with the rhetorical macrostructure seems to be the norm, however. As anexplanation, it is hypothesized that deviations occur in areas where the specification clashes with standard technical writing practice,supporting thus the view that genres are mediated by social practices. Although further quantitative analysis is pending, this descriptionof the use of ASD-STE100 might prove of interest both to scholars and practitioners
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/34828
UL http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/34828
LA en
NO https://doi.org/10.5209/cjes.80141
DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna
RD 28-nov-2024