Publications

Publication details [#46465]

Nevile, Maurice. 2007. Action in time: Ensuring timeliness for collaborative work in the airline cockpit. Language in Society 36 (2) : 233–257.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

agenda-setting | conversational analysis | setting | transcription system | worker

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper stresses the value of considering grammatical forms as consequential for work enactment in specific settings, and in particular for identifying local ways of generating order for agenda-based activities. The paper explores transcriptions of airline pilot cockpit discourse in actual scheduled passenger flights.