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description/indexation of the topic
Cultural construct of a civilization on American
soil
. The analyst of an audiovisual text selects one or more conceptual terms on his
working interface and gives an account of them, indexing them freely, describing
them, annotating them, etc. while still respecting certain
rules of use
including, in
particular, that which stipulates that certain conceptual terms
presuppose
other
conceptual terms (for instance, in our case, the conceptual term [Civilization] is
presupposed by the term [Cultural construct] and the instantiated conceptual term
[Geographical region: <America>] is presupposed by the term [Period]; for more
detailed explanations, see Chapter 3).
12.4.TheASWuniverseofdiscourse
The structures or thematic configurations form the main collections of the CCA,
LHE or ArkWork libraries of models for describing audiovisual content. Figure 12.1
shows an extract from the collections making up the LHE
library of models of
description*
. As we can see, the LHE referential domain of knowledge is
approached in the form of a hierarchical system of
topoi
called
subjects
. At the root
of the LHE library of models of description, we find four main categories of
subjects:
1.
The subject “French literature”
- a class of subjects which deal with various
aspects of French literature (history, authors,
œuvres
, literary schools, etc.);
2.
The subject “World literature”
- a class of subjects which deal with national
literatures, literature by language, works and authors, and so on;
3.
The subject “Literary life”
- a class of subjects which deal with literary
practices, uses of literature, literary publishing, diffusion and criticism;
4.
The subject “Literary research”
- a class of subjects which deal, finally, with
actual research devoted to literature, to the literary text, to literary history, to the
reception of literature, etc.
These four classes of subjects together form the four main collections of
interactive forms devoted to describing the audiovisual content of the texts making
up the LHE archives. From these collections, the analyst will choose the appropriate
form to describe and index his audiovisual text or corpus. Let us note in passing that
neither the organization of the collections (and sub-collections) of forms for
analyzing the subjects, nor the number of them, is set in stone - they can evolve in
accordance with the analyst's needs or, more generally, the goals and analytical
policies of such-and-such an archive. However, to change a library of forms for
analyzing particular subjects into a corpus of audiovisual texts is a painstaking and
complicated task, which can have significant consequences for corpora of
audiovisual texts that have already been analyzed and published.
