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Chapter 5
The Analytical Task of
“Describing the Knowledge Object”
5.1.Introduction
In this chapter, we shall more closely consider the analysis of the objects
(situations, events, etc.) which make up the domain of knowledge thematized in an
audiovisual text or corpus. As has already been said, this is one of the two aspects of
so-called
referential description*
of the knowledge object dealt with in a text (in our
case, an audiovisual text). The other side of referential description is the
contextualization of the knowledge object, i.e. localizing it (spatio-temporally,
socially, historically, etc.), which will be discussed in Chapter 6.
Also, let us not forget that
referential description*
constitutes one of the main
tasks
of a specific
type
of analysis of the audiovisual text, which we shall call
thematic description*
or description of the audiovisual content. The other tasks
which make up the type of analysis called thematic description are as follows: the
task of
description of the discourse production*
around a subject developed in the
audiovisual text, the task of
description of the audiovisual expression (or mise-en-
scène)*
and/or verbal expression of the content and, finally, the task of production
of a commentary by the analyst himself as regards his own description (see
Chapter 4, Figure 4.4).
We shall begin this chapter by discussing a simple example of referential
description (section 5.2). For this purpose, we shall return to the example developed
in Chapter 3, relating to the description of an audiovisual text which deals with the
technicalcultureoftheChavíncivilization
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