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the vocabulary expresses that view at a certain level of generality or
“granularity”;
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the vision expressed by the vocabulary is intrinsically partial.
However, the modifications to the vocabulary of conceptual terms of the
analytical objects in the ASW
universe of discourse*
will refer to these three types
of limitation and will thus become controllable. An important issue is being able to
reconcile the “rigidity” of the organization of the meta-lexicon of generic conceptual
terms with its compulsory adaptation to the specific expectations and requirements
of the users (the concept designers and analysts) and to the world's historical
evolution.
12.5. The general organization of the vocabulary relating to analytical objects
intheASWuniverseofdiscourse
Let us now consider Figure 12.2, which shows the canonic base and the higher
categories within the vocabulary of conceptual terms of the analytical objects in the
ASW universe of discourse. These conceptual terms, whose root term is [Object of
analysis], are identified, defined and classified to cater for the needs of analysis of
varied audiovisual corpora, including those which document the domains of history
and literature, archaeology and cultural diversity.
As we have already pointed out, the empirical scope of a conceptual term
taken
in isolation
from this vocabulary goes far beyond the empirical scope of the three
aforementioned domains, meaning it can be used to define models for describing
audiovisual resources which have nothing to do with those domains. A
distinction
must therefore be drawn between the following
twolevels
:
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the level of the
modelfordescribing*
an audiovisual text or corpus;
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and the level of the
conceptual terms*
which make up the model of
description.
Taken in isolation, a conceptual term is obviously not specific to a chosen
domain of analysis; considered in relation to one or more other terms with which it
forms a
conceptual configuration*
[STO 87; STO 93], it becomes specific and
peculiar to a domain of analysis (such as that of the audiovisual corpus which
documents, for example the major schools of thought in French literature or
archaeological digs around the world).
