Authentic routine ship-shore communication in the Northern Adriatic Sea area – A corpus analysis of discourse features

In the global maritime industry, ineffective and ambiguous communication often is a main or contributing cause of shipping accidents. Nevertheless, because limited availability authentic data, quantitative studies in are rare. addition, previous seem to have used Standard Marine Communication Phrases as prescriptive standard, thus overlooking superordinate role Manual for Use by Maritime Mobile Mobile-Satellite Services published International Telecommunication Union. Therefore, this paper uses specialised spoken corpus routine ship-shore quantify rate compliance with standard protocol ships shore services key agents provision navigational safety efficiency. The findings show that still significantly deviates from communication. varies across analysed elements between two examined study. Finally, results indicate need harmonisation documents define - study based on Routine Shore not more observant than ships. efficiency clarity largely relies predictability topics. Harmonisation necessary