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Chapter 6
The Analytical Task of
“Contextualizing the Domain of Knowledge”
6.1.Introduction
Figures 3.3-3.5 (Chapter 3) show a second stage in the thematic description (that
is, description of the content) of an audiovisual text or a specific passage therein: the
contextualizationoftheknowledgeobject
identified beforehand.
The term “contextualization” here is used in the sense of “
referential
contextualization
”. This is the procedure which explicitizes the
referential
framework
- the
perimeter
- of the knowledge object. In that sense,
contextualization denotes a
descriptive task
, which, along with that of describing the
knowledge object (see Chapter 5), constitutes the task of
referential description*
.
Remember that the task of referential description, in turn, forms one of the four main
tasks of a specific type of analysis of an audiovisual text, known as
thematic
description*
(or description of the content) - the three others being the description
of the
discourse production* around a topic
, the description of the
audiovisual
expression*
and/or
verbal expression
of the topic and, finally, the meta-textual
commentary (which, for instance, facilitates the
explicitation of the framework
- the
“point of view” - of the content analysis itself).
To begin with, referential contextualization can be broken down into
spatial
contextualization
and
temporal contextualization
. In our research regarding the
analysis of audiovisual corpora, we focused particularly on these two forms of
contextualization in order to be able to experiment with localization on geographical
maps and chronological localization on timelines of subjects and themes developed
