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Task: “Referential analysis (of the topic)”
Sub-tasks:
1) Identification and explicitation of the knowledge object thematized in an audiovisual text
or corpus
2) Location (spatial, temporal, thematic) of the knowledge object
Discursive description relating to/aimed at
Task: “Discourse analysis”
Sub-task 1:
Description
of the discursive framing of the topic in question
Sub-task 2:
Description
of the point of view as regards the topic in question
Sub-task 3:
Description
of the type/genre of discourse which “conveys” the topic
Sub-task N: …
Figure7.1.
Overallviewshowingtheplaceofdiscourseanalysisindescribingthecontentof
acorpus,andafewofitssub-tasks
That said, taking account of this stratum in the general structural organization of
a text requires real knowledge in discourse analysis, and professional skills which
are in scarce supply on the “labor market” because they are not widely taught in
establishments which are supposed to train the analysts of corpora (audiovisual or
otherwise).
7.3.Anatomyofthedescriptionofdiscourseproductionaroundasubject
Figure 7.1 shows how analysis of the discourse production around a subject fits
into the process of content analysis. Once the referential description of the domain
