Audiovisual Archives: Digital Text and Discourse Analysis

Chapter 13

Detailed Presentation of the Conceptual Vocabulary [Object of analysis]

 

13.1. Introduction

This chapter is given over to a more detailed presentation of certain parts of the vocabulary of conceptual terms denoting the objects of analysis in the ASW universe of discourse.

Section 13.2 is devoted to a general presentation of the branch [Object “Endurant”], which is divided into two more specialized branches – [Natural object] and [Object of value].

In section 13.3, we shall once again come back to the organization of the metalexicon. We shall more particularly discuss the notion of the taxonomic domain which we use to classify the conceptual terms and structure into small, semantically homogeneous groups.

In section 13.4, we shall again discuss the question – a tricky one for any attempt to set up a unique descriptive framework – of how to give an account of different classifications (scientific, “popular”, practical, etc.) of a domain of knowledge, using the meta-lexicon of conceptual terms.

The remaining sections – 13.5 to 13.11 –are dedicated to a more in-depth presentation of the different branches which make up the meta-lexicon of conceptual terms representing analytical objects in the ASW universe of discourse.

13.2. The two branches [Natural object] and [Object of value]

The branch of the ASW vocabulary of conceptual terms which is based on the conceptual term [Object “Endurant”] (see Figure 12.2 in section 12.5), refers to the set of objects, systems or collections ...