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on models of description. These models form part of the category of so-called
discursive configurations.
Remember Figure 5.1, which shows that the thematic description (of the content)
of a corpus of audiovisual texts relies on explicitation of its
thematic structure*
(in
that sense, we are also speaking of
thematic description*
here). That thematic
structure is made up, on the one hand, of the
topical configuration*
enabling us to
carry out a referential description of the content (analysis of what is being talked
about in the text) and, on the other hand, of
discursiveconfigurations*
, of
verbal
and/or audiovisual
and
meta-textual expression
. Taking account of the remaining
configurations therefore enables us to refine and complement the referential
description, depending on the need and the objectives to be fulfilled, with a
description of the discourse production (the
discursivization
[GRE 79]) of the
theme(s) concerned, with the description of the modalities and strategies of verbal
and audiovisual expressions and also by explicitation of the framework of reference
of the analysis itself.
Section 7.2 is given over to a brief summary presentation of the main procedures
of discourse production which we have taken into account in conducting our
research.
In section 7.3, we shall give a more detailed discussion on the task of describing
discourse production around a topic and of its place in the thematic analysis (of the
content) of an audiovisual text or corpus.
Section 7.4 is reserved for the presentation of a few concrete examples of the
description of discourse production around a topic.
Finally, in section 7.5, we shall develop a few more ideas relating to the subject
of the importance of taking account of a discourse analysis (or rather, an analysis of
the discourse production around a topic) for monitoring information and, more
specifically, for being able to
trace
the information.
7.2.Proceduresofdiscourseproduction
The task of describing the discourse production around a topic (also see
[STO 01]) relates to the discourse which deals with and “relates to” a subject,
depending on its author's intentions, knowledge of its object and, finally, its
audience.
Beyond the fact of determining what a text talks about (
referential description
*
of the subject or theme), this is a question of wishing to detail how a given
discourse
