Glossary of Specialized Terms - Audiovisual Archives - page 301

knows? Does all the information given originate with that author, or does s/he refer
to other sources? etc. On the other hand, discursive analysis of the audiovisual text
concerns the identification and description of the type and/or genre of discourse
which characterizes a text. Typically, here, one asks such questions as: Is this
audiovisual text (in its entirety or such-and-such a specific passage) a narration, a
description, an explanation? Is the audiovisual text a didactic discourse, a
marketing-stylediscourse,ascientificdiscourse? etc.
3) Technically speaking, the description of the discourse production around a
subject, a topic (see Chapter 7) is performed with the help of a small set (a small
collection) of specialized sequences of description. Similarly to the collection of
sequences specializing in audiovisual description, this collection of specialized
sequences is also relatively independent from one object/domain of knowledge to
another, from one audiovisual corpus to another, or from one archive to another. In
other words, it can be used almost exactly as it is for analyzing the discourse
production around the most varied of domains of knowledge.
4) Finally, discursive analysis of the audiovisual text (the second type of analysis
introduced in point 2 above), is as yet not massively developed, and is presented in
the form of a very simple and general model of description made available to
interested analysts in the DescriptionWorkshopoftheASWStudio* .
Thematicconfiguration
1) The thematic configuration defines the structure of the audiovisual content
and serves for putting in place models of thematic description (or content
description), accessible to the analyst via a series of interactive working forms in the
ASW Studio DescriptionWorkshop* .
2) The thematic configuration is made up of several functionally-specialized
types of configurations including, notably, the topical configuration* , the
discursive configuration* , the configuration of the audiovisual mise-en-scène *
(and verbal mise-en-scène as well - a type of configurations which is not discussed
here).
Topicalconfiguration
1) Technically speaking, the topical configuration explicitizes and defines a
vision (or theory, not necessarily scientific) of a domain of knowledge which, in the
context of our research, is part of the universe of discourse* of an audiovisual
archive* .