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As Figure 11.11 shows, each of the two sub-sequences can, in turn, be divided -
in accordance with the same imperative of syntagmatic coherence - into even more
specialized sequences. In our example, the first sub-sequence is itself made up of
two more specialized sequences, the first of which must be filled in, while the
second is optional. Simply put, here the analyst is invited to specify which scientific
discipline(s) the audiovisual text he is describing deals with. That is, if applicable,
and if the analyst so desires, he can specify the discipline(s). This is a particularly
useful option to properly explicitize disciplines (such as sociology or anthropology)
which have a great many sub-disciplines and approaches whose existence may be
down to the decision of an individual researcher, a particular research group or
whether they can be considered institutional facts or widely shared scientific
references - we have no real way of knowing this. The specialized sequences which
make up the second sub-sequence follow a pattern of enumerative deployment: there
is nothing to stop other relevant specialized sub-sequences being added in order to
explain the context of the scientific research, nor to stop the position of a particular
specialized sequence in the selected syntagmatic order being altered.
In any case, each unit of the sequence which serves “directly” for describing an
audiovisual text, as Figure 11.11 also shows, is defined by at least two types of
descriptive schema. The example shown in Figure 11.11 is the unit of the sequence
Descriptionofthetheme “Discipline”
. This is defined, as we can see, by the schema
Selection of the CT (conceptual term) “Scientific discipline”
and by the schema
ControlleddescriptionoftheScientificdiscipline
.
As a general rule, all the units of sequences which serve “directly” for describing
an audiovisual text are founded in this pair of definitional schemas that we have just
discussed:
‒
the first schema serves to define the topical structure (in our case - the simplest
- it is merely a question of confirming the fact that the analysis does indeed relate to
the conceptual term [Scientific discipline]; for more complex cases, see Chapters 5
and 8);
‒
the second schema serves to describe the topical structure defined beforehand
(as we know, it is either the schema defining a
procedure of controlled description*
or the schema defining a
procedure of free description*
; in some cases, we can also
find a slightly more elaborate schema here which integrates both procedures).
11.7.ResourcesexternaltotheASWsystem
By “resources external to” the ASW metalinguistic system, we mean resources
which are not actual components of that system, or which are not so in the same
sense as are, for example, the meta-lexicon of conceptual terms, the ASW thesaurus
