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Chapter 12
The Meta-lexicon Representing the ASW
Universe of Discourse
12.1.Introduction
Remember that the meta-lexicon of conceptual terms, in a manner of speaking,
constitutes the “heart” of the ASW
metalinguistic resources*
. This is what provides
the
vocabulary
needed to define and elaborate the descriptive models used by the
analyst -
via
the working interface of the ASW Studio (and, more particularly, the
Description Workshop) - to analyze the audiovisual texts in an archive.
As said in the previous chapter, this meta-lexicon is made up to two perfectly
complementary parts:
‒
the first part is given over to the conceptual vocabulary which covers the ASW
discourse-object
, i.e. the different types of
objects of analysis*
that make up the
ASW
universe of discourse*
and are likely to be described and indexed by the
analyst;
‒
the second part is reserved for the conceptual vocabulary which covers the
analyticalactivities*
made available to the analyst to describe said objects.
In this chapter, we shall present that part of the meta-lexicon of conceptual terms
reserved for identifying and denoting the types of analytical objects of the ASW
universe of discourse.
Section 12.2 is given over to a few explanations as regards the relations between
“conceptual term” and “theme”.
