Maurice Nevile
Maurice Nevile is a Research Fellow in the Division of Communication and Education at the University of Canberra, and completed his PhD at the Australian National University (Canberra).
In recent years his research has focussed on naturally occurring interaction in commercial aviation. He has been interested in how airline pilots talk and act to accomplish tasks for their work, and particularly in how they orient to accountability for how their work is acceptably organised, sequentially and temporally. He has written on pilots' embodied practices, such as posture, gestures and gaze, and use of artefacts, and on how, through processes of interaction, pilots enact professional identities, create shared understandings, and produce in situ formally scripted talk for procedures (e.g. checklists). He has also written research reports for the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, transcribing and analysing recorded voice data (e.g. cockpit voice recorder) to examine aspects of communication in air accidents.
His new research areas include talkback radio, and the conduct of problem gamblers in gambling venues.
His most significant publication is a book on interaction in commercial aviation:
Nevile, M. (2004) Beyond the black box: talk-in-interaction in the airline cockpit. Aldershot: Ashgate. (In series: Directions in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis).His other recent or forthcoming publications include the following:
Nevile, M. (in press, 2007) Talking without overlap in the airline cockpit: precision timing at work.Maurice.Nevile@canberra.edu.au
Text and Talk.Nevile, M. (in press, 2007) Ensuring timeliness for collaborative work in the airline cockpit.
Language in Society, 36(2).Nevile, M. (in press, 2007) Overlapping talk at moments of trouble in collaborative work [working title].
In V. Bhatia, J. Flowerdew and R. Jones (eds), Advances in discourse studies. London and New York: Routledge.Nevile, M. (in press, 2006) Seeing the point for collaborative work in the airline cockpit.
Interacting Bodies, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Gesture, Lyon.Nevile, M. (2006) Making sequentiality salient: and-prefacing in the talk of airline pilots.
Discourse Studies, 8(2): 279-302.Nevile, M. and M.B. Walker (2005) A context for error: using conversation analysis to represent and analyse recorded voice data.
Human Factors and Aerospace Safety, 5(2): 109-135.Nevile, M. (2005) 'Checklist complete'. Or is it? Closing a task in the airline cockpit.
Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 28(2): 60-76.Nevile, M. (2005) You always have to land: Accomplishing the sequential organization of actions to land an airliner.
In S. Norris and R. Jones (Eds.), Discourse in action: introducing mediated discourse analysis. London and New York: Routledge, 32-44.Nevile, M. (2004) Integrity in the airline cockpit: embodying claims about progress for the conduct of an approach briefing.
Research on Language and Social Interaction, 37(4): 447-480.Nevile, M. (2002) Coordinating talk and non-talk activity in the airline cockpit.
Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 25(1): 131-146.Nevile, M. (2001) Understanding who's who in the airline cockpit: pilots' pronominal choices and cockpit roles.
In A. McHoul and M. Rapley (eds.), How to analyse talk in institutional settings: a casebook of methods. London and New York: Continuum, 57-71.