Russian Journal of LinguisticsRussian Journal of LinguisticsRussian Journal of Linguistics2687-00882686-8024Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)1785110.22363/2312-9182-2018-22-1-126-143ArticlesСтатьиArticlesResearch ArticleTHE EMOTIONAL PROSODY OF U.S. FATAL AIR-ACCIDENT DOCKETS ONLINE: RISKING RISK COMMUNICATION?ЭМОЦИОНАЛЬНАЯ ПРОСОДИЯ В ОН-ЛАЙН ИНСТРУКЦИЯХ В СИТУАЦИИ АВИАКАТАСТРОФ: КОММУНИКАЦИЯ В ОБСТАНОВКЕ РИСКАGuindaCarmen SanchoГиндаКармен СанчоCARMEN SANCHO GUINDA is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Applied Linguistics at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, where she teaches English for Academic and Professional Communication at the school of Aerospace Engineering and in-service seminars for engineering teachers willing to undertake English-medium instruction. Her research focus is the interdisciplinary study of academic and professional discourses and genres and innovation in the learning of academic competencies.КАРМЕН САНЧО ГИНДА - доцент кафедры прикладной лингвистики Мадридского политехнического университета. Преподает английский язык в сфере научной и профессиональной коммуникации в школе космической инженерии, проводит семинары для преподавателей технических наук. Сфера научных интересов - междисциплинарное исследование научного и профессионального дискурса, жанров и инноваций в формировании научной компетенции.carmen.sguinda@upm.esUniversidad Politécnica de Madrid ETSI Aeronáutica y del EspacioМадридский политехнический университет15122018221The discourse of emotionsДискурс эмоций12614319022018Copyright ©; 2018, Guinda C.S.Copyright ©; 2018, Гинда К.С.Copyright ©; 2018, Guinda C.2018Guinda C.S.Гинда К.С.Guinda C.https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0https://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/article/view/17851Risk communication is grounded in both rationality and emotion (Fischhoff & Kadvany 2011, Bo-holm & Corvellec 2014). Recent investigations have proved that emotions do affect risk and danger percep-tions by functioning as ‘mediators’ (Xie et al. 2011) and become important in decision-making. My study explores how emotion is induced by the National Transportation Safety Board of the United States of America (NTSB for short) to influence the mentalities and behaviours of its broad mixed audience and thus increase risk prevention. With that research purpose in mind, I examine an electronic corpus of over 500 online samples of fatal aviation dockets issued yearly online by the NTSB between the time span 2010-2015 and contained in its website databases. The emotional engagement deployed to mediate the perceptions of risk and danger by the general public constitutes a unique genre among all other world transportation agencies, since through informative vividness it pursues to activate the processes of memory, inference (i.e. judgement) and decision-making. I take Stubbs’ (2001) concept of ‘discursive prosody’ as point of departure and resort to a blended theoretical framework that combines Narratology, Corpus Linguistics, Critical Discourse Analysis, and Proximisation (Cap 2013) and Positioning (Harré & van Langenhove 1999) Theories. I will show that the NTSB’s emotional prosody is more rhetorical than lexical and that the narrative strategies of focalisation and speech representation play a salient role. To conclude I will reflect on some of the possible consequences of over-exploiting emotional engagement in risk communication.Коммуникация в ситуации риска является и рациональной, и эмоциональной (Fischhoff & Kad-vany 2011, Boholm & Corvellec 2014). Современные исследования доказали, что эмоции действительно влияют на восприятие опасности и риска и выполняют функцию «медиаторов» (Xie et al. 2011) в принятии решений. Данная работа посвящена эмоциям в текстах обращений Национального транспортного комитета по безопасности США (NTSB), которые влияют на настроение и поведение широкой и разноплановой аудитории и таким образом повышают степень безопасности. С этой целью был проанализирован электоронный корпус из 500 инструкций о смертельной опасности на авиационном транспорте (с 2010 по 2015 г.), ежегодно публикуемых на сайте NTSB. Тексты подобных инструкций, содержащих эмоциональный компонент восприятия риска и опасности, представляют собой уникальный жанр, поскольку информативная яркость и насыщенность активизируют процессы памяти, суждений и принятия решений. В качестве отправной точки берется понятие «дискурсивной просодии» (Stubbs 2001), а в качестве теоретической базы используются нарратология, корпусная лингвистика, критический дискурс-анализ, а также теории проксимизации (Cap 2013) и позиционирования (Harré & van Langenhove 1999). В данной статье показано, что эмоциональная просодия в оповещении о рисках является более риторической, чем лексической, и важную роль играют нарративные стратегии акцентирования и речевой репрезентации. В заключении делаются предположения о возможных последствиях злоупотреблений эмоциональной составляющей в коммуникации в ситуации риска.Risk communicationemotional prosodyproximisationpositioningnarrative focali-sationaircraft-accident dockets onlineU.S. National Transportation Safety Boardкоммуникация в ситуации рискаэмоциональная просодияпроксимизацияпозиционированиенарративное акцентированиерегистраторы авиакатастроф онлайнНаци-ональный Транспортный комитет США по Безопасности1.Andrews, M., Squire, C. & Tamboukou, M. (eds.) (2008). Doing narrative research. London: Sage.2.Anthony, L. (2007). AntConc 3.2.1w. Retrieved from http://www.antlab.sci.waseda.ac.jp/software.html.3.Bal, M. (1985). Narratology: Introduction to the theory of narrative. 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