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Let us now take a brief look at Figure 14.17. This figure shows a specialized
collection of schemas of indexing by facet, which form a set of metalinguistic
resources for describing audiovisual texts that deal with an issue relating to
“linguistic culture”: languages, families of languages, structures and uses of a
language, writing systems, etc.
As we can see (Figure 14.17), we have selected a particular schema of indexing
by facet entitled
Identifying to value(s) of “Languages by alphabetical order”
. This
schema of indexation defines a type of
activity of analysis*
which belongs to a
procedure of
controlled description*
, used to elaborate
descriptive models*
for
analyzing audiovisual texts that thematize one or more languages (in a given
context, in relation to such-and-such a use, such-and-such a group of speakers, etc.)
and which belongs to one or more
libraries*
of descriptive models defining the
universeofdiscourse*
of a given audiovisual archive.
On the right-hand side of Figure 14.17, we see the expression (in uppercase)
LANGUAGES BY ALPHABETICAL ORDER. This indicates the range of values,
i.e. the facet of the ASW thesaurus (see Chapter 15) and which serves as a classeme
for a certain number of (standardized) expressions.
For instance, <French> and <Nenets> are two standardized expressions which -
like many others in the ASW thesaurus - come from the range or the facet
Languagesbyalphabeticalorder
. However, as we saw in Chapter 11, a standardized
expression may constitute the value of two or more facets. Thus, <Nenets> also
belongs to the ASW facet
Ural languages and families of languages
, in the same
way as <French> is also found in the ASW facet
Indo-European languages and
familiesoflanguages
.
We can clearly see that the
facet
expresses a classification, or a part of one,
which may be scientific, practical, utilitarian, “popular”, etc. in nature. In other
words, it enables us to explicitize the semantic trait or characteristic which an actor
(a person, a social group, an institution) employs to group together things which
another actor (another person, another social group, another institution) classifies in
different categories.
