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<Elamite civilization>, <Hebrew civilization>, and so on. When carrying out his
description, the analyst can use this list of standardized expressions in the form of a
specific element figuring in the procedure of
controlled description*
, whose specific
function is to enable the analyst to perform the task of identification and
explicitation of all the
subjects*
relating to one or more ancient European
civilizations.
That said, as we have already pointed out (see Chapter 10, and sections 11.4 and
14.4), a standardized expression may belong to
several facets
. This means that a
standardized expression which belongs to more than one facet is considered to
possess
differentmeanings
in the ASW
universeofdiscourse*
.
Figure15.3.
Exampleofafacetmadeupofalistofstandardizedexpressions
Figure 15.4 shows the concrete example of a person's name: <Augé, Marc>,
which is part of a long list of people's names that we need for describing the
audiovisual corpora analyzed in the ASW-HSS project's experimentation
workshops.
2
Figure15.4.
Exampleofanexpressionbelongingtoseveralfacets
2 See http://semiolive.ext.msh-paris.fr/asa-shs/.