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The paper studies verbal maritime communication by categorising spontaneous professional discourse observed in co-operative full-mission simulation exercises into the illocutionary points of commissives and directives according to Searle's original classification. The research adopts a Corpus Pragmatics approach by combining vertical Corpus Linguistics methods with horizontal Pragmatics analyses. Between-group analyses of speech acts by native and non-native speakers of English are carried out and possible risks of miscommunication classified and compared. On the basis of the circular Osgood-Schramm communication model the sender–receiver interaction is investigated for either speaker group. Findings include both quantitative and qualitative between-group differences in locutionary, illocutionary and perlocutionary speech acts. These differences are evaluated as causal factors in effective communicative acts and as contributory factors for miscommunication in the maritime domain.

Item Type:	Refereed Article
Keywords:	maritime team communication, professional discourse, corpus pragmatics, speech act theory
Research Division:	Language, Communication and Culture
Research Group:	Linguistics
Research Field:	Applied linguistics and educational linguistics
Objective Division:	Education and Training
Objective Group:	Teaching and curriculum
Objective Field:	Pedagogy
UTAS Author:	John, P (Mr Peter John)
UTAS Author:	Brooks, B (Associate Professor Benjamin Brooks)
UTAS Author:	Schriever, U (Dr Ulf Schriever)
ID Code:	151352
Year Published:	2022
Deposited By:	Seafaring and Maritime Operations
Deposited On:	2022-07-27
Last Modified:	2022-09-12
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