Audiovisual Archives: Digital Text and Discourse Analysis

Glossary of Specialized Terms

 

NOTE: Expressions in bold and followed by an asterisk (e.g. “ASW-HSS project*”) appear in the glossary.

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Activity of analysis

1) A type of concrete action which serves to denote, name, index, annotate, etc., an object of analysis*.

2) An activity of analysis, either alone or in conjunction with other analytical activities, makes up a procedure of description (including, more specifically, the procedure of free description* and the procedure of controlled description*).

3) Every activity of analysis is identified by its corresponding conceptual term in the meta-lexicon* whose root term is [Procedure of analysis].

Analysis (of an audiovisual corpus)

1) A term denoting one of the two main categories of tasks and activities of work on an audiovisual corpus. The other category is processing* of an audiovisual corpus.

2) The work of analysis involves explicitizing the potential value* of an audiovisual text for a given audience (the analyst* could be this audience). A potential value* may be new information provided about a particular topic, missing or unpublished images, explanations which facilitate better understanding of a fact, etc.

3) We distinguish between four levels of analysis:

i) The most general level is that of the type of analysis/description (among the most commonly recurring types of analysis we can cite the following: metadescription*, paratextual description*, audiovisual description* stricto sensu, thematic description*, pragmatic description ...