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Chapter 3
A Concrete Example of a Model for
Describing Audiovisual Content
3.1.Introduction
In Chapter 1 (section 1.6), we briefly outlined the theoretical framework of
reference which guides us in creating the metalinguistic resources needed to put in
place the
models of description*
an analyst needs in order to carry out the
description of the content of an audiovisual corpus. The question which now arises
is how that theoretical reference model is actually reflected in the aforementioned
models of description making up the
metalanguage of description*
of an archive's
universe of discourse*
. More concretely still, how is this framework of reference
expressed in such-and-such an interactive working form which is part of the
interface of the ASW Studio, presented briefly in Chapter 2 (also see [STO 11a])?
In this chapter, we shall present and discuss a
model of description*
of the
content of an audiovisual text or corpus. In the next chapter (Chapter 4), we shall
draw a number of more general consequences from this, for the approach developed
herein of analyzing the content of corpora or entire audiovisual texts.
Section 3.2 very briefly presents a
library*
of models of description for
analyzing audiovisual corpora making up a particular archive. In section 3.3, we
shall present and discuss the
sequences*
which make up a model of description. A
sequence is a
thematically
and
functionally circumscribed configuration
which
defines a
specific stage
of description in the process of analyzing an audiovisual text
using a model of description.