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2) Paratextual description offers an identification/presentation of an audiovisual
object which corresponds to the 15 criteria of description defining the Dublin Core
standard.
Pragmaticdescription(Typeof-)
Pragmatic description is a specific type of description which is concerned with
explicitly stating the potential uses of the audiovisual text it is dealing with and
adapting it, wherever possible (and without
processing*
(
per se
) of the “material”
object), to the profile and expectations of a given audience. The adaptation may take
the form of a translation (literal, summarizing, free…) and/or an intellectual/cultural
“reworking” (as is the case, e.g. as part of the popularization of a particularly
specialized content so as to make it understandable to a broader audience).
Referentialdescription(Taskof-)
1) Referential description is concerned with identifying and denoting the
objects
or
domains of knowledge
and with the
contexts
(
spatiotemporal and/or thematic
)
which are selected in an audiovisual text and which present themselves in the form
of
topics*
.
2) It constitutes a specific task of the type of analysis known as
thematic
analysis*
, or analysis of the audiovisual content of a text or corpus of audiovisual
texts.
Thematicdescription(Typeof-)
1) Thematic description is a specific type of description which spells out the
topics*
, i.e. the content or message of an audiovisual text, i.e. of an audiovisual text
or corpus of audiovisual texts.
2) Thematic description encompasses a number of more specialized kinds of
description:
referential description*
,
description of the discourse production*
,
description
of the
audiovisual
miseenscène
(or expression),
commentary
.
3) Thematic description is carried out using a library of
models of description*
of the content of the audiovisual objects which are supposed to document a given
aspect of the domain of knowledge covered by a video-library, a portal, or more
often an audiovisual production-publishing program.
