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political culture), and artistic cultures (in the sense, here, of
“technical savoir-faire;
techne”
) for example.
The five taxonomic domains in question are constructed in a manner identical to
the taxonomic domains referring to the natural world. However, some of them are
presented in a more elaborate way than others. Given the context of our research, it
is notably the domains represented by the conceptual terms [Cultural object], [Social
object] and [Functional material object] that we have been able to elaborate further,
test and validate in the form of concrete analyses of audiovisual corpora.
Before briefly presenting a small section of taxonomic domains of knowledge,
let us take a look at a few general questions relating to the terminology and
organization of the ASW vocabulary of conceptual terms - questions which are
equally valid for the vocabulary of conceptual terms representing the procedures of
analysis (Chapter 14) as well as for libraries of schemas of definition and sequences
of description (Chapter 16).
13.3.QuestionsoforganizationoftheASWmeta-lexicon
When carrying out the task of definition and classification
per se
, we had to take
account of two complementary aspects:
‒
classification of the conceptual terms according to the
taxonomic
logic from
the
mostgeneral
to the
mostspecific
;
‒
recourse to
semantic dimensions
(or
classemes
, to use the terminology of
Greimas' structural semantics [GRE 67]), which motivate and explicitize the
taxonomic classification of a set of terms under the “umbrella” or “heading” of a
more general term.
Let us first remind ourselves that the expression
conceptual term*
means the
(standardized, controlled)expression of a concept
(a
notion
or
theme*
). In the ASW
meta-lexicon, a conceptual term can be identified as follows:
‒
a conceptual term occupies a
position of its own
in the taxonomic hierarchy of
all the conceptual terms which make up the meta-lexicon;
‒
a conceptual term is part of one of the
three elements in the canonic triplet
which organizes a taxonomic domain of knowledge (see below);
‒
a conceptual term is differentiated from the other conceptual terms of the same
hierarchical level (and which also belong to one of the elements of the canonic
triplet) in reference to at least one
classeme
.
