AN INTEGRATED BASIC MARITIME ENGLISH COURSE BASED ON THE FINDINGS AND IMPLICATIONS OF A DETAILED TEXT-ANALYSIS OF A CORPUS OF MARITIME ENGLISH WRITTEN DISCOURSE (CAREER COURSE, TERTIARY LEVEL)

On the basis of the findings and linguistic implications of a detailed multi-focal text-analysis of a representative corpus of Maritime English (ME) written discourse, an integrated basic ME language course is proposed to address both the special language needs of tertiary-level students seeking a career in the maritime industry and the communicative-conceptual language features required for communication in the industry itself.; The course claims to restore the lacking balance of catering to both the language and its functional use in the present custom-built programs for teaching ME. Thus, the approach adopted in the proposed course is based upon a model of language in which "content" is functionally related to "structure." Course material based on this approach does not define the language content to be taught in purely lexical, grammatical or syntactic terms, but in terms of the concepts and functions which these linguistic devices are meant to express or indicate.; Taking into consideration other models of linguistic analysis which have been previously applied and which have not provided--so far--useful generalizations to special-subject languages' syllabus designers, material writers and teachers, the present study adopts an eclectic model of text-analysis which can cope satisfactorily with the distinguishable range of lexical, morphological, syntactic, rhetorical and conceptual style markers of ME written discourse. Such a model while typifying the formal linguistic features of the special language under investigation draws a profile of the communicative-functional events underpinning the formal linguistic features of ME written discourse.