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semiotictheory*
[GRE 79]). That is, it relies on the
selection
of a set of
conceptual
terms
and their
positioning
using specific relations such as logical relations,
attributive relations, locating relations, rhetorical relations, and so on.
However, in order to be able to select conceptual terms constituting a conceptual
configuration, we must already have a well-defined vocabulary of such selectable
terms.
12.3.Thedefinitionalstructureofatopic
The vocabulary of conceptual terms in the ASW meta-lexicon whose root term is
[Object of analysis] (see Figure 11.3) serves primarily (though not exclusively!) to
represent the
referential domains of knowledge
thematized or thematizable in the
corpora making up the archives which form the experimental workshops of the
ASW-HSS project
1
: cultural diversity (the referential domain of the Culture
Crossroads Archives
2
), literary heritage (the referential domain of the Literature
from Here and Elsewhere portal
3
) and archaeology (the referential domain of the
Arkeonauts' Workshop portal
4
).
These referential domains are dealt with using
models of thematic description*
(and, more specifically,
topical
5
description), i.e. using configurations or structures
of situations, practices, actors, works, environments and surroundings, etc. -
conceptual structures or configurations which the analyst, if need be, adapts to his
work of analysis and specifies with information from the audiovisual text or corpus
being analyzed.
Yet the notion of the
universe of discourse*
of an audiovisual text (of an
audiovisual corpus or archive) is not limited to the referential domains of
knowledge. In addition, as we have already shown many times, the objects of the
text
and the
discourse
, i.e. the specificities and constraints of the instruments or tools
for
mediatizing apieceofknowledge
,
expressing
it,
communicating
it,
appropriating
it and also
conserving
and
transmitting
it. As has already been explained (see
Chapter 1), the audiovisual text deals with a domain of knowledge from a certain
point of view and in reference to a particular cultural framework. It thematizes and
expresses certain aspects of it, ranking them and developing them “in its own way”
1 Official website of the project: http://www.asa-shs.fr/; research log: http://asashs.hypotheses.org/.
2 http://semiolive.ext.msh-paris.fr/arc/.
3 http://semiolive.ext.msh-paris.fr/alia/.
4 http://semiolive.ext.msh-paris.fr/ada/.
5 On the topic of the correlation between “thematic configuration” and “topical
configuration”
strictosensu
, see the explanations given in section 5.3 and Figure 5.1.
