Aeronautical Meteorology in Aeronautical Language and in Aviation Language: a hybrid field?

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https://doi.org/10.23925/2318-7115.2020v41i4a2

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Aeronautical Meteorology, Aviation, Terminology, Phraseology

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Although Aeronautical Meteorology language is not generally regarded as standard communication between air traffic controllers and pilots, it plays an important role in Air Traffic Control (ATC) communication since it comprises phraseology and plain language used to communicate weather phenomena which interfere in aviation operations. Then, this paper focuses on the meteorology terminology used by Brazilian experts and discusses whether Aeronautical Meteorology is a hybrid field. Based on the theory of lexical semantics for terminology proposed by L’Homme (2020), the syntactic and semantic properties of a small set of Portuguese terms were analyzed in two separate textual corpora, i.e. a corpus representative of Aviation language and a corpus representative of Aeronautical language. For that, the combinatorics of terms were examined by means of a concordancing tool and were categorized by means of semantic labels. Quantification and comparison of the results obtained seem to suggest that the behavior of the terms in the two corpora share a fair amount of similarities.

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Rafaela Araújo Jordão Rigaud Peixoto, Departamento de Controle do Espaço Aéreo (DECEA)

Rafaela Araújo Jordão Rigaud Peixoto is Translator / Interpreter at the Department of Airspace Control, in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), where she develops research on Terminology in the aviation field. She holds a Ph.D. in Language Studies / Letters, an M.A. in Linguistics, a Graduate Specialization degree in English / Portuguese Translation, a Graduate Specialization degree in Pedagogical Neuroscience, and a major in Letters Portuguese / English. Her recent research interests include terminology, English for Specific Purposes, and intercultural relations. E-mail: rafaelarajrp@decea.gov.br

Janine Maria Mendonça Pimentel, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)

Janine Maria Mendonça Pimentel is Associate Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on translation and supervises Master’s and Doctorate students. She holds a Ph.D. in Translation Studies from the University of Montreal (Canada), an M.A. in Linguistics and a Bachelor’s degree in Modern Languages and Literature from NOVA University of Lisbon (Portugal). Her recent research interests include specialized translation, translation technologies and activism in translation. E-mail: janinepimentel@letras.ufrj.br

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Peixoto, R. A. J. R., & Pimentel, J. M. M. (2020). Aeronautical Meteorology in Aeronautical Language and in Aviation Language: a hybrid field?. The ESPecialist, 41(4). https://doi.org/10.23925/2318-7115.2020v41i4a2

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