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way in which the author (the enunciator) deals with a chosen topic and
transforms it
into a theme peculiar to his discourse
: his point of view, the mobilization or not of
other “voices” on the subject, the chosen level of precision, etc.
2) It forms a specific task within the type of analysis called
thematic analysis*
or analysis of the content of an audiovisual text or corpus. Other specific tasks are:
referential description*
,
description of the audiovisual expression*
or the
analyst's own commentary.
3) The (task of) description of discourse production must be distinguished from
the analysis of the (filmic) discourse in the true sense. This latter concerns the
elucidation of the speech acts and rhetoric specific to an audiovisual text or corpus.
Description of the discourse production, on the other hand, is concerned with
explicitizing the specificities of a
topic*
as a theme in its author's discourse.
Descriptionofaudiovisualmiseenscène(expression)(Taskof-)
1) The description of the discourse production is part of
thematic description
*.
In particular, it relates to explicitizing the “strategies” of the audiovisual mise-en-
scène of a
topic*
selected and transformed into a theme of discourse in an
audiovisual text or corpus.
2) It forms a specific task of the type of analysis called
thematic analysis*
or
analysis of the audiovisual content of an audiovisual text or corpus. Other specific
tasks are:
referential description*
,
description of the discourse production*
around a topic, or the analyst's own commentary.
3) The description of the audiovisual
mise en scène
must be distinguished from
audiovisual description*
stricto sensu
. The latter relates primarily to the visual,
sound and audiovisual shots of an audiovisual text, at the expense of its content.
Paratextualdescription(Typeof-)
1) Paratextual description is a specific type of description which clarifies the
formal identity of an object being analyzed (a video, a segment of video, an image,
etc.) i.e. its title, its author(s), its genre, possibly the date and place of publication,
etc. It also clarifies issues of rights (copyright, usage rights, etc.) and if need be, the
“main topic” to which the analyzed object belongs (leaving the explicitation (
per se
)
of the topic to the thematic description).
