| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1111546 | Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences | 2015 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
Aircraft-accident dockets are collaboratively written and summarise the circumstances and outcome of aviation mishaps. Those issued online by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) are addressed to a broad mixed readership that may be emotionally affected by the facts reported if death tolls and serious injuries are involved. Therefore, interpersonality plays a crucial role in this type of texts, which I use to reflect on how we ESP teachers can raise polytechnical students’ sensitivity towards their audiences. With that purpose I draw on an electronic corpus of 1,673 samples reporting fatal accidents between 2005 and 2012.
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