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The two first groups of these more specialized activities are identified by the
conceptual terms [Designation of the thematized object (in an audiovisual text)] and
[Denomination
stricto sensu
of the thematized object]. They are given over to the
linguistic activity of (free) indexation to identify and name a knowledge object
which is the subject in an audiovisual text being analyzed. We have seen some
concrete examples during out discussion about the procedure of
freedescription*
.
Without wishing to go into detail, let us at least point out that these two groups
of procedures for analyzing the content include a whole variety of even more
specialized analytical activities. Thus, in terms of [Designation of the thematized
object], amongst other things, we find the following activities which we have
already come across in our concrete examples (see e.g. those in Chapters 3 and 9):
‒
[Minimal designation of the thematized object] (and its pragmatic variants);
‒
[Contextualized designation of the thematized object] or;
‒
[Designation of the thematized object by keywords].
In terms of the [Denomination
stricto sensu
of the thematized object]
(Figure 14.2), we find all the analytical operations which require the analyst to
produce proper nouns which are appropriate to identify, e.g.:
‒
the name of a
natural expanse or place
(a flow of water, a geographical
outcrop, etc.);
‒
the name of a
product
or
brand
;
‒
the name and acronym of an
institution
or indeed;
‒
the ethnonym of a
people
or an
ethnicgroup
.
Finally, we also find here the analytical activity of [Anthroponymic
denomination] (and its different variants) to identify a
person
by his/her/their
different names (surname, first name, patronym, matronym, nickname, etc.).
Two other groups of activity belonging to the taxonomic domain [Procedure of
analysis of the content of the textual object] (Figure 14.2) are represented by the
conceptual terms [Visual representation of the thematized object] and [Acoustic
representation of the thematized object]. The activities which fall under this
taxonomic domain offer the analyst the possibility of indexing the content of an
audiovisual text, not with linguistic expressions (the option which is made available
to the analyst by the analytical activities belonging to the two first groups cited
above), but instead with
visual
and/or
acoustic
expressions. An able and experienced
analyst can thus create a whole
meta-iconography
peculiar to his archive, to
