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The examples developed in sections 8.3 and 8.4 also open the door to problems
peculiar to semiotic or conceptual engineering of models of description. Indeed, we
must not delude ourselves: when we speak of a “configuration” or of a “network
(semantic, conceptual)”, etc. it is not merely a question of “interconnecting”
conceptual terms to create structures. As we shall see later on, a configuration of
conceptual terms (a conceptual configuration) may not only be contracted into a
single term or expanded into a set of different conceptual terms, but also be formed
from local configurations positioned in relation to one another. However, one of the
most crucial relations in terms of position - already presented in detail in Greimas'
structural semantic theory [GRE 67] - is that of presupposition . Beginning with this
point, a whole series of more complex relationships can be drawn upon to create
ever more sophisticated topical configurations which give a fine-grained account of
the internal specificities on a given subject in an audiovisual text or corpus. This is
where Greimas' narrative grammar (certainly one of the most advanced of its kind)
comes into play, “providing” the concept designer with a wide variety of so-called
narrative relations, explicitly intended for elaborating more sophisticated topical
models [GRE 79; STO 83; STO 85; STO 87]. Even though - for mainly practical
reasons - we have not systematically integrated all the richness of Greimasian
narrative semiotics* into the models currently used for analyzing audiovisual
corpora, let us underline that (as stated in the first chapter) it is this approach, this
“vision” which guides and, in a manner of speaking, “feeds” our approach to
modeling - i.e. the elaboration of models of description of (audiovisual) content.
8.2.Someremindersandspecifications
Let us remember the distinction introduced in section 5.3, between the
conceptual term* (CT) and the object or domain of knowledge. A conceptual term is
the lexical expression of a concept and is part of the vocabulary of the ASW
metalanguage which we use for elaborating models to describe audiovisual corpora.
On the other hand, an object or domain of knowledge* is an object which is
thematized (one way or another, and in accordance with the particular objectives of
a communication) in an audiovisual text or corpus, and which the analyst describes
using a model forming part of the ASW metalanguage of description*.
The topical structure is a configuration of conceptual terms (CTs) which belong
to the ASW meta-lexicon (see Chapters 12 and 13). It defines types of objects or
domains of knowledge from the universe of discourse* of an archive which is
thematized (spoken about, developed) in a particular audiovisual text belonging to
the collection of the archive in question.
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