Chapter 14
The Meta-lexicon of Activities Involved in Analyzing the Textual Object
14.1. Introduction
Having discussed the meta-lexicon which is reserved for the conceptual vocabulary needed to describe the objects of analysis* that make up the universe of discourse*, let us now take a look at that which identifies the activities of analysis we use when describing, annotating and indexing an audiovisual text or corpus.
As we shall specify in the following section (14.2), we have concentrated on four particular classes of activity of analysis which, together, form a second meta-lexicon of conceptual terms. That is, they form an entirely separate metalinguistic resource, which the concept designer uses to specify and develop the models of description* that make up the library of models for describing the universe of discourse* peculiar to a given audiovisual archive. The analyst uses these procedures to carry out his task of analysis or assessment of an audiovisual text or corpus.
In sections 14.2–14.6, we shall introduce the main categories of analytical procedures which we employ when processing an audiovisual corpus.
Every activity of analysis defined in the ASW meta-lexicon is accounted for by one or more schemas of indexing – a schema of indexing is one or more specialized fields which the analyst must or may fill in when analyzing his audiovisual text or corpus. In section 14.7, we shall discuss the relations of definition between one or more schemas of indexing and a conceptual ...
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