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of sequences serving to analyze the objects and domains of knowledge thematized in
an audiovisual corpus or collection.
Figure11.11.
Functionalorganizationofasequenceandrelationships
withtheschemasmakingupasequence
Let us take another look at the
internal organization
of a sequence and its
relationships
with the schemas of definition. The example in Figure 11.11 shows the
sequence
Analysis “Scientific Research in HSS”
. This sequence is used in a
syntagmatic structure which is made up, as we can see, of two main sub-sequences,
the second of which presupposes the first. In other words, the first sub-sequence
necessarily has to be filled in before the second. Looking more closely at the
relationship between the two sub-sequences, we can see that the first sub-sequence
delimits the relevant context (in our case, the context is given by the scientific
disciplines dealt with in an audiovisual text or corpus), while the second sub-
sequence is charged with detailing that context (in our case, explicitizing the specific
aspects of a disciplinary or interdisciplinary piece of research: theme, domain, field
work, etc.).
“First the relevant context, then different facets or aspects of the context”
is a
very frequently recurring syntagmatic device in the construction of more complex
sequences that, like the one shown in Figure 11.11, are deployed in two or more sub-
sequences. Yet of course, there is a whole range of such functional and syntagmatic
devices such as
enumerativedeployment
(certainly the simplest),
causaldeployment
,
chronologicaldeployment
, bona fide
narrative deployment
, etc. Here we run into the
problem of the text's syntagmatic coherence - an issue which we have dealt with
more extensively in another topic, devoted to the analysis and design of “new
information products” [STO 99; STO 92].
