Audiovisual archives : digital text and discourse analysis /

Today, audiovisual archives and libraries have become very popular especially in the field of collecting, preserving and transmitting cultural heritage. However, the data in these archives or libraries - videos, images, soundtracks, etc. - constitute as such only potential cognitive resources for a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Stockinger, Peter
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London, UK : Hoboken, NJ : ISTE Ltd ; John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012.
Subjects:	Audio-visual archives. Information storage and retrieval systems > Audio-visual materials. Discourse analysis. Corpora (Linguistics)
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Preface
Part 1. The Practical, Technical and Theoretical Context
Chapter 1. Analysis of an Audiovisual Resource
1.1. Introduction
1.2. Functionally different corpora
1.3. Descriptive models
1.4. On the activity of analysis of audiovisual corpora
1.5. On the activity of indexation
1.6. Some reflections on the subject of the theoretical reference framework
Chapter 2. The Audiovisual Semiotic Workshop (ASW) Studio
A Brief Presentation
2.1. A working environment for analyzing corpora of audiovisual texts
2.2. Brief presentation of the ASW Description Workshop
2.3. Four approaches to analyzing an audiovisual text
2.4. Models of description and interactive working forms
Chapter 3. A Concrete Example of a Model for Describing Audiovisual Content
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Selecting the appropriate model from the library of descriptive models of description of audiovisual content
3.3. The sequences in a model of content description
3.4. Field of description and sequential organization of an analytical form
3.5. The level of schemas of definition and procedures of description
Chapter 4. Model of Description and Task of Analysis
4.1. Introduction
4.2. The structural organization of a model of audiovisual content description
4.3. The canonic syntagmatic order of a form of description
4.4. Types of analysis, analytical tasks, procedures of description and activities of description
4.5. Particular tasks in analyzing the content of an audiovisual corpus
4.6. Concluding remarks
Part 2. Tasks in Analyzing an Audiovisual Corpus
Chapter 5. The Analytical Task of Describing the Knowledge Object
5.1. Introduction
5.2. A simple example of referential description
5.3. Thematic structure, topical structure and referential objects
5.4. A library of sequences for referential description
5.5. Alternative functional architectures to define sequences of referential description
Chapter 6. The Analytical Task of Contextualizing the Domain of Knowledge
6.1. Introduction
6.2. Contextualization by spatial location
6.3. Location and contextualization by country
6.4. Geographical-physical location and contextualization
6.5. Contextualization by temporal location
6.6. Contextualization by historical era
6.7. Historical contextualization and periodization
6.8. Thematic contextualization
Chapter 7. The Analytical Task of Analyzing the Discourse Production around a Subject
7.1. Introduction
7.2. Procedures of discourse production
7.3. Anatomy of the description of discourse production around a subject
7.4. Examples illustrating analysis of discourse production
7.5. Textual and discursive assessment
Part 3. Procedures of Description
Chapter 8. Definition of the Domain of Knowledge and Configuration of the Topical Structure
8.1. Introduction
8.2. Some reminders and specifications
8.3. (Re-)configuring and adapting an existing topical structure
8.4. (Re-)configuring more complex topical structures
Chapter 9. The Procedure of Free Description of an Audiovisual Corpus
9.1. Introduction
9.2. Organization of the so-called free description procedure
9.3. The descriptive activity [Minimal designation]
9.4. The descriptive activity [Contextualized designation]
9.5. The activities of [Drafting of a summary presentation] and [Designation of the referent in the original language]
9.6. The descriptive activity [Designation of the referent by keywords]
9.7. Pragmatic and onomasiological variants of the activity of [Minimal designation]
Chapter 10. The Procedure of Controlled Description of an Audiovisual Corpus
10.1. Introduction
10.2. Organization of the procedure called controlled description
10.3. Working with several micro-thesauruses
10.4. Selecting, classifying and ranking terms using a micro-thesaurus
10.5. An approach combining controlled and free description
Part 4. The ASW System of Metalinguistic Resources
Chapter 11. An Overview of the ASW Metalinguistic Resources
11.1. Introduction
11.2. General overview of the ASW system of metalinguistic resources
11.3. The ASW meta-lexicon of conceptual terms
11.4. The ASW thesaurus
11.5. The schemas of definition
11.6. The sequences of description
11.7. Resources external to the ASW system
11.8. ASW Modeling Workshop
Chapter 12. The Meta-lexicon Representing the ASW Universe of Discourse
12.1. Introduction
12.2. Conceptual term and theme
a few explanations
12.3. The definitional structure of a topic
12.4. The ASW universe of discourse
12.5. The general organization of the vocabulary relating to analytical objects in the ASW universe of discourse
12.6. Questions relating to the organization of the ASW vocabulary of conceptual terms representing analytical objects
12.7. The process of developing the ASW vocabulary of conceptual terms defining analytical objects
Chapter 13. Detailed Presentation of the Conceptual Vocabulary [Object of analysis]
13.1. Introduction
13.2. The two branches [Natural object] and [Object of value]
13.3. Questions of organization of the ASW meta-lexicon
13.4. How are we to take account of different classifications?
13.5. The conceptual domain represented by the term [Functional material object]
13.6. The conceptual domain represented by the term [Social object]
13.7. The Conceptual domain represented by the term [Cultural object]
13.8. Taxonomic domains belonging to the branch [Primary symbolic object]
13.9. Taxonomic domains belonging to the branch [Secondary symbolic object]
13.10. The taxonomic domains of the branch [Object Perdurant]
13.11. The taxonomic domains of the branch [Object Region]
Chapter 14. The Meta-lexicon of Activities Involved in Analyzing the Textual Object
14.1. Introduction
14.2. Four categories of textual analysis activities
14.3. The class of activities [Procedure of structural analysis of the textual object]
14.4. The class of activities [Procedure of analysis of the textual object using the ASW thesaurus]
14.5. The class of activities [Procedure of analysis using an ASW external reference]
14.6. The class of activities [Procedure of pragmatic analysis of the textual object]
14.7. Activity of analysis and schemas of indexation
14.8. The library of schemas of indexing
Chapter 15. The ASW Thesaurus
15.1. Introduction
15.2. General presentation of the ASW thesaurus
15.3. Facets and lists of standardized expressions
Chapter 16. The Configurational Building Blocks of Models of Description
16.1. Introduction
16.2. Analysis of an audiovisual text and models of description
16.3. The library of sequences making up the model of thematic description
16.4. Definition and insertion of a sequence into a model of description
16.5. Summary presentation of a library of schemas of definition
Conclusion and Perspectives
Bibliography
Glossary of Specialized Terms
Glossary of Acronyms
Index.