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ontology at our disposal for describing activities of analysis of the textual object,
which by using we are able to produce a very nuanced and fine specification of the
procedures and tasks of analysis needed to carry out a given type of analysis.
This means that a particular procedure of analysis such as that of free description
can vary enormously
depending on the
specificity
of the object of analysis and the
desired level of precision of an analysis. Thus, it is very different from having to
designate a conceptual object using a verbal expression, illustrate it with a visual
icon or indeed, if applicable, indicating its geographical, temporal or “conventional”
coordinates (e.g. in the form of an address). All these eventualities mean that the
same type of analytical procedure can vary greatly from one type of analysis to
another, from one task to another, and so on.
Let us highlight, therefore, that the choice of a type of analysis entails a selection
of relevant tasks of analysis and procedures of analysis appropriate both for the
specificity of the object of analysis and for the framework of the type of analysis
chosen. The ASW metalinguistic system takes account of these variations, even
though the current version of the ASW Studio software only partially integrates it .
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4.5.Particulartasksinanalyzingthecontentofanaudiovisualcorpus
Let us now look more specifically at the type of analysis which we are most
interested in here:
thematic description* (of the content)
of an audiovisual text or
corpus. Figure 4.4 singles out the five
main tasks of analysis
relating to the content
of an audiovisual text or corpus:
1. Analysis of the domain of reference (or expertise): analysis of the referential
content, of the topical structure
strictosensu
(task 1.1 in Figure 4.4).
2. Analysis of the referential contextualization (of the spatial and temporal
localization) of the knowledge object thematized in the audiovisual text (task 1.2 in
Figure 4.4).
3. Analysis of the discourse held about the knowledge object in question (task 2
in Figure 4.4).
4. Analysis of the
mise en scène
or audiovisual expression of the discourse held
about the knowledge object in question (task 3 in Figure 4.4).
5. “Free” meta-textual commentary by the analyst (task 4 in Figure 4.4).
5 The current version of the ASW Description Workshop enables the analyst to choose
between different types of analysis, but this choice does not entail an automatic selection of
relevant tasks and procedures. The analyst has to follow a “simple” methodological guide in
order to perform his analysis appropriately.
