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14.3. The class of activities [Procedure of structural analysis of the textual
object]
Figures 14.2 and 14.3 show an extract from the conceptual vocabulary
identifying the main types of activities for analyzing the textual object as a structural
unit.
Figure14.2.
Theprocedureofcontentanalysisperformedonthetextualobject
Thus, we can distinguish three main taxonomic domains represented by the
conceptual terms [Procedure of analysis of the content of the textual object] (see
Figure 14.2), [Procedure of analysis of the multimodal expression of the textual
object] (see Figure 14.4) and [Procedure of analysis of the textual support] (again,
see Figure 14.4).
As we can see, in developing this conceptual vocabulary, we did not use our
usual canonic triplet of [Taxon of the domain…], [Feature of the domain…] and
[System of the domain…]. The reason behind this omission is purely pragmatic in
nature: we have no need of it, as the hierarchy of conceptual terms for this
vocabulary is far less complex than that representing the
objects of analysis*
in the
ASW
universe of discourse*
(see Chapter 13). That said, in time this vocabulary
will also be transformed, in a manner entirely similar to the conceptual vocabulary
representing the analytical objects, in a
hierarchyoftaxonomicdomains
.
Looking at Figure 14.2 more closely, we can clearly see that the conceptual term
[Procedure of analysis of the content of the textual object] can be broken down into
a whole series of specialized activities.
