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The case of English for aviation maintenance: A multi-dimensional analysis of commercial aircraft manuals 航空维修英语案例：商用飞机手册的多维分析

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English for Specific Purposes

Pub Date : 2025-05-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2025.05.005

Amber Wanwen Wang, Eric Friginal

Aircraft manufacturers use Simplified Technical English (STE) as a strategic tool to enhance the readability of aviation maintenance manuals and reduce comprehension errors. This standardized linguistic approach is essential for ensuring global aviation safety, especially as approximately 80% of maintenance technicians worldwide are non-native English speakers (NNES). This study employs Biber's Multi-Dimensional analysis framework to investigate the linguistic characteristics of aviation maintenance English (AME) compared to general written English (GWE). The research is based on a specialized 27-million-word corpus compiled from maintenance manuals for operational commercial aircraft families produced by a leading manufacturer, which collectively support global flight operations. The analysis reveals that AME prioritizes informational density, minimizes abstract content, and uses comparable levels of elaboration to ensure clarity in safety-critical contexts. These findings challenge the misconception of simplified English as overly simplistic or reductive, demonstrating instead that strategic linguistic simplification enhances technical communication without compromising clarity. By highlighting the role of STE in supporting global interoperability, safety, and efficiency, this research offers valuable implications for English for Specific Purposes (ESP) pedagogy and the ongoing development of STE guidelines in aviation and other high-stakes industries.

飞机制造商使用简化技术英语（STE）作为提高航空维修手册可读性和减少理解错误的战略工具。这种标准化的语言方法对于确保全球航空安全至关重要，特别是因为全球大约80%的维修技术人员是非英语母语者（NNES）。本研究采用Biber的多维分析框架，探讨航空维修英语（AME）与一般书面英语（GWE）的语言特征。这项研究基于一个2700万字的专业语料库，该语料库是从一家领先制造商生产的商用飞机系列的维护手册中汇编而成的，这些飞机系列共同支持全球飞行运营。分析表明，AME优先考虑信息密度，最小化抽象内容，并使用可比较的细化级别来确保安全关键上下文中的清晰度。这些发现挑战了人们对简化英语过于简单或简化的误解，相反，战略性的语言简化在不影响清晰度的情况下提高了技术交流。通过强调STE在支持全球互操作性、安全性和效率方面的作用，本研究为特殊用途英语（ESP）教学法以及航空和其他高风险行业的STE指南的持续发展提供了有价值的启示。

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Corrigendum to “The case of English for aviation maintenance: A multi-dimensional analysis of commercial aircraft manuals” [English for Specific Purposes 79 (2025) 87–100] “航空维修英语案例：商用飞机手册的多维分析”的勘误[专用英语79 (2025)87-100]

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English for Specific Purposes

Pub Date : 2025-05-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2025.05.006

Amber Wanwen Wang, Eric Friginal

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English for Specific Purposes

Pub Date : 2025-05-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2025.05.002

Fan Lin, Yan Qin

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Bridging the gap: Exploring authorial voice in medical ethics blogs and research papers 弥合差距：探索医学伦理博客和研究论文中的作者声音

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English for Specific Purposes

Pub Date : 2025-05-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2025.05.004

Selahattin Yılmaz , Nur Yiğitoğlu-Aptoula

This study examines the authorial voice in medical ethics blogs and their corresponding academic papers to uncover how scientific discourse is recontextualized for broader audiences. Drawing on 92 medical ethics blog posts paired with their paired medical research articles, the analysis focuses on stance, engagement, and recontextualization strategies. Using corpus-based and qualitative approaches, we identify how these two genres differ in tone, self-representation, and audience engagement, with blogs employing more personal and evaluative language to facilitate accessibility and reader involvement. Findings reveal that medical ethics blogs strategically balance credibility and relatability, emphasizing simplicity and interactivity, while the corresponding research articles adhere to formal conventions of accuracy and detail. This study highlights how academic blogging can complement traditional research dissemination by fostering inclusivity and enhancing the public's engagement with complex scientific issues.

本研究考察了医学伦理博客及其相应学术论文中的作者声音，以揭示科学话语如何为更广泛的受众重新语境化。根据92篇医学伦理博客文章及其配对的医学研究文章，该分析侧重于立场、参与和重新情境化策略。使用基于语料库和定性的方法，我们确定了这两种类型在语气、自我表现和受众参与方面的差异，博客使用更多的个人和评估性语言来促进可访问性和读者参与。研究结果显示，医学伦理学博客在策略上平衡了可信度和相关性，强调简单性和互动性，而相应的研究文章则坚持准确性和细节的正式惯例。这项研究强调了学术博客如何通过促进包容性和提高公众对复杂科学问题的参与来补充传统的研究传播。

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English for Specific Purposes

Pub Date : 2025-05-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2025.05.001

Dilay Candan

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The case of English for aviation maintenance: A multi-dimensional analysis of commercial aircraft manuals 航空维修英语案例：商用飞机手册的多维分析

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English for Specific Purposes

Pub Date : 2025-05-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2025.04.004

Amber Wanwen Wang, Eric Friginal

Aircraft manufacturers use Simplified Technical English (STE) as a strategic tool to enhance the readability of aviation maintenance manuals and reduce comprehension errors. This standardized linguistic approach is essential for ensuring global aviation safety, especially as approximately 80% of maintenance technicians worldwide are non-native English speakers (NNES). This study employs Biber's Multi-Dimensional analysis framework (Biber, 1988, 1995, 2006) to investigate the linguistic characteristics of aviation maintenance English (AME) compared to general written English (GWE). The research is based on a 27-million-word corpus derived from maintenance manuals for all operational Boeing commercial aircraft families (737, 747, 757, 767, 777, and 787), which collectively serve over 150 countries and represent nearly half of the global fleet (Boeing, 2024). The analysis reveals that AME prioritizes informational density, minimizes abstract content, and uses comparable levels of elaboration to ensure clarity in safety-critical contexts. These findings challenge the misconception of simplified English as overly simplistic or reductive, demonstrating instead that strategic linguistic simplification enhances technical communication without compromising clarity. By highlighting the role of STE in supporting global interoperability, safety, and efficiency, this research offers valuable implications for English for Specific Purposes (ESP) pedagogy and the ongoing development of STE guidelines in aviation and other high-stakes industries.

飞机制造商使用简化技术英语（STE）作为提高航空维修手册可读性和减少理解错误的战略工具。这种标准化的语言方法对于确保全球航空安全至关重要，特别是因为全球大约80%的维修技术人员是非英语母语者（NNES）。本研究采用Biber的多维分析框架（Biber, 1989,1995,2006）来研究航空维修英语（AME）相对于通用书面英语（GWE）的语言特征。该研究基于2700万字的语料库，这些语料库来自所有波音商用飞机系列（737、747、757、767、777和787）的维护手册，这些飞机总共服务于150多个国家，占全球机队的近一半（波音，2024年）。分析表明，AME优先考虑信息密度，最小化抽象内容，并使用可比较的细化级别来确保安全关键上下文中的清晰度。这些发现挑战了人们对简化英语过于简单或简化的误解，相反，战略性的语言简化在不影响清晰度的情况下提高了技术交流。通过强调STE在支持全球互操作性、安全性和效率方面的作用，本研究为特殊用途英语（ESP）教学法以及航空和其他高风险行业的STE指南的持续发展提供了有价值的启示。

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Do-it-yourself corpora and discipline-specific writing: A focus on the benefits of corpus building and cleaning (in the age of large language models) diy语料库和特定学科的写作：关注语料库构建和清理的好处（在大型语言模型的时代）

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English for Specific Purposes

Pub Date : 2025-05-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2025.04.002

Maya Sfeir

Within the field of data-driven learning (DDL), an increasing number of studies have underscored the benefits of creating small specialized DIY corpora for the teaching/learning of discipline-specific writing. However, in these studies, corpus cleaning is often described as an optional step in the process of corpus creation and is frequently presented as a tedious, unnecessary, and time-consuming task, with the majority of scholars calling for the creation of “quick and dirty” corpora. In this paper, we re-examine corpus creation, namely corpus cleaning and metadata construction, for discipline-specific writing. More specifically, our paper seeks to reframe corpus cleaning and metadata construction as meaningful and purposeful activities that increase learners’ awareness of disciplinary norms and conventions, particularly in a comparative context. We base our analysis on the reflections provided by learners from various disciplines who designed, compiled, cleaned, and analyzed corpora, along with the final papers they drafted for the courses they took in the Department of English at a teaching-focused research university in the Middle East. Corpus cleaning and metadata creation, as we hope to show, not only make visible the invisible writing conventions within disciplines, including the integration of evidence and raw data, but also position language learners as data engineers, promoting their critical awareness of the role and nature of (language) data in the age of Large Language Models (LLMs).

在数据驱动学习（DDL）领域，越来越多的研究强调了为特定学科写作的教学创建小型专业DIY语料库的好处。然而，在这些研究中，语料库清理往往被描述为语料库创建过程中的一个可选步骤，并且经常被认为是一项繁琐、不必要和耗时的任务，大多数学者呼吁创建“快而脏”的语料库。在本文中，我们重新审视了针对特定学科写作的语料库创建，即语料库清理和元数据构建。更具体地说，我们的论文试图将语料库清理和元数据构建重新定义为有意义和有目的的活动，以提高学习者对学科规范和惯例的认识，特别是在比较背景下。我们的分析基于来自不同学科的学习者提供的反思，他们设计、编译、清理和分析了语料库，以及他们在中东一所教学型研究型大学的英语系为课程起草的期末论文。正如我们所希望展示的那样，语料库清理和元数据创建不仅使学科内隐形的写作惯例（包括证据和原始数据的整合）变得清晰可见，而且还将语言学习者定位为数据工程师，促进他们在大型语言模型（llm）时代对（语言）数据的作用和性质的批判意识。

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Stance and engagement in OASIS and scientific abstracts: A comparative study OASIS与科学摘要的立场与参与：比较研究

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English for Specific Purposes

Pub Date : 2025-05-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2025.04.003

Xiaoyan Wang , Ting Zeng , Ju Wen

The Open Accessible Summaries in Language Studies (OASIS) summaries are concise, one-page summaries written in accessible, non-technical language to facilitate the dissemination of language-related scientific research to a broader audience. The emergence of OASIS summaries represents a shift from traditional academic discourse found in scientific abstracts to a more inclusive and accessible format. This study presents a cross-genre analysis comparing OASIS summaries with their corresponding scientific abstracts in language-related studies. Drawing from two self-compiled corpora comprising OASIS summaries and scientific abstracts sampled from six journals, we examined the prevalence of stance and engagement markers across both genres. Our analysis revealed that hedges were the most prevalent stance marker, while directives were the most frequent engagement markers in both corpora. Notably, OASIS summaries showed an overall higher occurrence of both stance and engagement markers compared to scientific abstracts. These findings not only shed light on the distinctive rhetorical features of OASIS summaries but also offer valuable insights for researchers and practitioners developing accessible research summaries for language studies.

“语言研究开放获取摘要”（OASIS）是一种简洁的一页摘要，用易于理解的非技术语言编写，旨在促进与语言相关的科学研究向更广泛的受众传播。OASIS摘要的出现代表了从科学摘要中的传统学术话语向更包容和更易于理解的格式的转变。本文通过跨体裁的分析，比较了语言相关研究中OASIS摘要与其相应的科学摘要。我们从两个自编的语料库（包括OASIS摘要和从六种期刊中抽取的科学摘要）中分析了立场和参与标记在这两种类型中的流行程度。我们的分析显示，在两个语料库中，模糊限制语是最普遍的立场标记，而指示语是最常见的敬业标记。值得注意的是，与科学摘要相比，OASIS摘要显示立场和参与标记的总体发生率更高。这些发现不仅揭示了OASIS摘要的独特修辞特征，而且为研究人员和实践者开发易于理解的语言研究摘要提供了宝贵的见解。

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‘Could you send us your latest catalogue?’: A local grammar of requesting in English business letters 您能把最新的产品目录寄给我们吗？英语商务信函中的本地请求语法

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English for Specific Purposes

Pub Date : 2025-04-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2025.04.001

Lei Zhang , Fuzhi Tong

This study introduces a local grammar approach to investigating discourse acts in English business texts, demonstrating this with the discourse act of requesting in English business letters. Previous studies on request language in business letters have focused on its pragmatic, rhetorical, and lexical features, paying less attention to the exploration of how concrete meanings are expressed in making requests. Based on a one-million-word English business correspondence corpus, this study adopts a local grammar approach to analyze the semantic patterns for requesting. The results show that requesting in English business letters involves eight specific meanings, forming 16 semantic patterns, i.e. local grammar patterns. These patterns represent the most typical ways of meaning expression for request making in English business letter writing in an easy-to-read and systematic manner, demonstrating local grammar's added methodological value for exploring characteristic patterning of language in ESP/EBP (English for Business Purposes) contexts. The findings of this study can also provide important pedagogical insights for improving ESP/EBP learners' pragmatic competence.

本研究以商务英语信函中的请求语篇行为为例，介绍了一种地方语法方法来研究商务英语语篇中的语篇行为。以往对商务信函中请求语的研究主要集中在其语用、修辞和词汇特征上，很少关注请求语中具体含义的表达方式。本研究以百万字英语商务函电语料库为基础，采用局部语法方法分析请求的语义模式。结果表明，英语商务信函中的请求涉及8种特定意义，形成16种语义模式，即局部语法模式。这些模式以易于阅读和系统的方式代表了英语商务信函中请求的最典型的意义表达方式，展示了本地语法在探索ESP/EBP（商务英语）环境中语言特征模式方面的附加方法论价值。本研究结果也可为提高ESP/EBP学习者的语用能力提供重要的教学见解。

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The value of interactional metadiscourse in university level writing: Differences between high and low performing undergraduate business students 互动元语篇在大学写作中的价值：高、低成绩商科学生的差异

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English for Specific Purposes

Pub Date : 2025-04-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2025.03.002

Randy Appel , Ruth McKay

This study investigates the use of interactional metadiscourse within a third-year Human Resources course at a large North American university. Analysing final individual writing assignments, higher-performing (grades 80 and above) and lower-performing (grades 74 and below) students were compared in terms of how they differ in their use of interactional metadiscourse. The Authorial Voice Analyzer (Yoon, 2017) was employed to extract interactional metadiscourse features, including hedges, boosters, attitude markers, self-mentions, and engagement markers. Intergroup differences were then assessed using Cohen's d. Key findings include higher-performing students employing a greater variety of hedge types and using self-mentions more frequently, while lower-performing students relied more heavily on reader engagement markers, particularly by way of reader pronouns. These results suggest that higher-graded students in business courses may be more adept at managing interactional metadiscourse to present an appropriate authorial stance, while lower-graded students tend to over-engage with the reader. Pedagogical implications include the need for writing instructors to focus on teaching students how to strategically employ hedges and self-mentions to improve the quality and authority of their writing in business-related disciplines. These insights can help shape targeted writing interventions aimed at improving student performance in content-focused courses, such as Human Resources.

本研究调查了北美一所大型大学三年级人力资源课程中互动元话语的使用情况。通过分析期末个人写作作业，比较了表现较好的学生（80分及以上）和表现较差的学生（74分及以下）在使用互动元话语方面的差异。作者语音分析器（Yoon, 2017）被用来提取交互元话语特征，包括模糊限制语、助推器、态度标记、自我提及和参与标记。然后使用科恩的d来评估组间差异。主要发现包括，表现较好的学生使用更多种类的限制语类型，更频繁地使用自我提及，而表现较差的学生更多地依赖于读者参与标记，特别是通过读者代词的方式。这些结果表明，在商科课程中，成绩较高的学生可能更善于管理互动元话语，以呈现适当的作者立场，而成绩较低的学生往往与读者过度互动。教学意义包括写作教师需要专注于教学生如何有策略地使用模糊限制语和自我提及，以提高他们在商业相关学科中的写作质量和权威性。这些见解可以帮助形成有针对性的写作干预措施，旨在提高学生在以内容为中心的课程中的表现，比如人力资源。

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