Information Technology Reference
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Level 1:
Level 2:
Level 3:
Level 4:
Type of analysis
Tasks of analysis
Procedures of
analysis
Activities of
analysis
- Meta-
description
Task(s) of
referential
description
- Procedure of
free description
Designating a
conceptual term
- Paratextual
description
- Procedure of
controlled
description
Task(s) of
contextual
description
Classifying a
(designated)
conceptual term
- Audiovisual
description
stricto sensu
Task(s) of
discursive
description
- Procedure of
mixed description
Producing a list
of keywords
-
Thematic
description (of
content)
Illustrating (a
conceptual term)
with a visual icon
Task(s) of
description of
audiovisual
expression
- Pragmatic
description
- Basic
description
Task(s) of
description of the
object's formal
identity
- Specialized
descriptions
Figure4.3.
Thefourmainhierarchicallevelsdefiningthetaskof
analyzingacorpusof(audiovisual)texts
As we have already explained in Chapter 2, we consider an analysis of a text or
corpus to always and necessarily be linked to a
certain point of view
(the analyst's)
as regards the text to be analyzed, and to a certain
interest
in the text, or indeed to an
objective
, a
goal
which the analysis sets out to fulfill. It is utterly futile to attempt to
reduce all these points of view, interests and objectives to a single analytical
framework. It is better to allow the analyst the choice of carrying out this-or-that
analysis, to carry out an analysis of a textual object as he sees fit. Without wishing to
suggest that the ASW metalinguistic resources covers all imaginable desires or
needs of analysts, we do believe that these resources are flexible enough to fulfill a
fairly large number of such desires and needs.
