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13.9.Taxonomicdomainsbelongingtothe branch[Secondarysymbolicobject]
The taxonomic domain organized around the conceptual term [Secondary
symbolic object] covers a whole series of more specialized taxonomic domains
which enable us to analyze subjects relating to the beliefs and religions, scientific
research, literature, music and visual arts, ideologies and political views, knowledge
and technical knowhow or indeed the systems of values, the norms or rules
governing, say, a social group, for example.
These are central empirical domains thematized in the audiovisual corpora upon
which our analysis was based. As already explained above (see section 13.4 and
Figure 13.13), the terms belonging to the vocabulary of the branch [Secondary
symbolic object] are grouped into three main sets (see Figure 13.17), which form or
could form more specific taxonomic domains.
Figure13.17.
Thetaxonomicdomainwhoserootisthe
conceptualterm[Object“Crossculture”]
Thus, a
first group
encompasses all the conceptual terms we need in order to
describe knowledge objects relating to, for example, the beliefs, ideologies and
thinking of a group, their values and norms, customs and traditions but also
knowledge and knowhow -
scientific
knowledge and knowhow in particular.
A
second group
is made up by the set of terms we use to describe what is
sometimes called
social cultures
, i.e. the
reference frameworks
(after Taylor
[TAY 98]; also see [STO 11c]) defining the identities and specificities (cognitive,
axiological, normative, etc.) of the different domains and sectors of social life such
as, for example, those of education, health, politics, the economy, and so forth.
