재난관리 수업 사례분석을 통한 소방방재 특수목적영어의 특징

초록

This research is to examine English for fire and emergency management in a master's course, Risk Assessment for Korean Fire Officials taught by an American professor. The data had been collected through videotaping the entire course for 45 hours and field notes and analyzed in the theoretical framework of language socialization and English for specific purposes. The research questions are first to find out English features and characteristics for fire and emergency management and second to examine specific jargons used in the contexts. The findings first discussed the meanings and functions of Gordon Graham Risk Assessment as a frame of reference and the contextual meanings of key terms including HR/LF, DT/NDT, The Red and The Yellow. Second, the Sewol disaster was analyzed as a disaster management failure case corresponding to The Red, while the Hudson River was a success case corresponding to The Yellow. In the processes, the most important English features revealed are frequently used disaster narratives and indexicality which help contextualize and recontextualize three layered realities including Gordon Graham, the course, and past disaster cases. Third, the research discussed the types of disaster exercises accompanied with specific narratives of disaster training cases in addition to relative jargons including injects, EOC, FSE, STOP ACTION WORD, May Day, etc. and other disaster training related terms. To conclude, this research implies there is a need to combine English for academic with occupational purposes in the case of English for fire and emergency. This research suggests that the future research should focus on disaster narrative studies as the primary function of English for fire and emergency purposes centered around the experience of Korean fire officials.

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