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Chapter 14
The Meta-lexicon of Activities Involved in
Analyzing the Textual Object
14.1.Introduction
Having discussed the meta-lexicon which is reserved for the conceptual
vocabulary needed to describe the
objects of analysis*
that make up the
universe of
discourse*
, let us now take a look at that which identifies the
activities of analysis
we use when describing, annotating and indexing an audiovisual text or corpus.
As we shall specify in the following section (14.2), we have concentrated on four
particular classes of activity of analysis which, together, form a
second meta-lexicon
of conceptual terms. That is, they form an entirely separate metalinguistic resource,
which the concept designer uses to specify and develop the
models of description*
that make up the library of models for describing the
universe of discourse*
peculiar
to a given audiovisual archive. The analyst uses these procedures to carry out his
task of analysis or assessment of an audiovisual text or corpus.
In sections 14.2-14.6, we shall introduce the main categories of analytical
procedures which we employ when processing an audiovisual corpus.
Every activity of analysis defined in the ASW meta-lexicon is accounted for by
one or more schemas of indexing - a schema of indexing is one or more specialized
fields which the analyst must or may fill in when analyzing his audiovisual text or
corpus. In section 14.7, we shall discuss the relations of definition between one or
more schemas of indexing and a conceptual term identifying a descriptive activity
(or rather, a specific type of descriptive activities). Then, we shall give a very brief
