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providing information about the actual structural organization of a narrative or a
portrait [ADA 90; ADP 89] such as it manifests itself in such-and-such a passage of
an audiovisual text. It is one thing to identify an audiovisual passage as being a
narrative or a portrait; it is quite another to explicitize their characteristic
peculiarities.
7.5.Textualanddiscursiveassessment
The approach to the description of audiovisual corpora presented herein
undeniably has a series of limitations, particularly in terms of taking into account
the linguistic and semiotic specificity of the discourse, which is a highly active and
innovative field of research, both in France, the United States and elsewhere (see
e.g. [CHA 02; GRU 98; MAI 96; SAR 07]).
The taking into account of the results of this research and their (at least partial)
integration into the ASW metalinguistic resources depends on the theoretical
compatibility between these different contributions (and compatibility with the
approach presented here) and on the opportunity, the “advantage” of proceeding in
this manner. In concrete terms, this adaptation will manifest itself in the form of the
setting up of a far larger library of sequences and schemas of description specialized
in discourse analysis (a library of sequences very similar to that shown in
Figure 7.2) - a library of sequences and schemas which would take account of the
limits set out above and of the possible solutions put forward in specialized research
about the function of discourse.
The advantage of creating such a library of sequences and schemas specialized in
discourse analysis brings us back to the question of more specialized genres or types
of information assessments:
- assessments which content themselves with analyzing the purely referential
content of a corpus of (audiovisual) texts; or
- assessments which also take account of the discourse and the different
strategies of discourse production around a piece of information (see above,
section 7.2).
Let us note, in passing, that one of the most central issues in the current economy
of knowledge is that of the
traceability
of information (in the context where
traceability
has a particular connotation of
reliability
). However, this is simply
impossible to put in place without taking account of the discourse of the author of a
piece of information (new, repeated, cited, reworked, etc.).
