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Figure3.4
.
Thedescriptionsequencereservedforcontextualizingthereferentialobjectofan
analysis,bycountryandbyadministrativeterritory
Thus, Figure 3.2 shows a first
sequence*
of the model which has specialized
functionality in referential analysis, i.e. in analysis of the domain of knowledge
which is thematized in an audiovisual text or corpus. In our case, the sequence
relates to two
types of objects*
specific to the domain of reference in question.
These are the type of objects designated by the
conceptual term*
[Civilization] and
the type of objects designated by the
conceptual term*
[Cultural construct].
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We shall come back later to the problem of
conceptual terms*
which actually constitute the
vocabulary
of the ASW metalanguage (see Chapter 4 and Part Four of this topic). Let us
simply note here that in terms of notation, a conceptual term is placed between two square
brackets as follows: [Conceptual term]. The value of that conceptual term (its instance, its
occurrence or indeed its predefined expression in a thesaurus) is expressed graphically as
