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In summary, and simply, these four fields of analysis enable us to answer the
basic questions necessary for any content analysis - questions which we have
already discussed in Chapter 1 (section 1.6):
1. What? What is being spoken about? Where? and When? Where, and at what
moment in time/era is the object being spoken about located?
2. How? How is the object treated and developed in the audiovisual text?
3. In what form? What are the verbal and/or audiovisual expressions used to
“speak” about the object?
4. Why? Why have I chosen this topic to discuss? For what motives? With what
intentions in mind?
A model of thematic description may, of course, be complemented by other
functional fields of analysis which either enrich the four fields cited above or which
open the doors to analysis of new issues not taken into consideration by our four
fields. In any case, every interactive working form making up the interface between
the analyst and a model of description must take account of the four fields which
characterize the domain of expertise of the content of an audiovisual text or corpus:
- the objects of the domain of knowledge to which the text refers and which
constitute its topicalstructure (strictly speaking);
- the discourse production and discursive development of the knowledge objects;
- the verbal, audiovisual or other (gestural, spatial, etc.) expression of the
knowledge objects thematized and developed in the form of discourse in a text;
- the analyst's viewpoint (his interest, his understanding, etc.) either in relation
to the knowledge objects thematized in the text or in relation to the discourse
production from the knowledge objects, or indeed in relation to both aspects.
By integrating these four fields of analysis as systematically as possible in a
model of thematic description of an audiovisual corpus, we can better take account
of the fact that any thematization of a knowledge object in a text is performed
according to a discursive mediation plan , i.e. according to the author's point of view
and his capability to hierarchize , formulate and develop (in a linear manner) his
point of view as regards the object dealt with in a discourse or a text.
3.5.Thelevelofschemasofdefinitionandproceduresofdescription
The sequence of a model of description is necessarily made up of one or more
schemas of definition* . A schema of definition is a configuration of conceptual
terms which is set apart:
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