Audiovisual Archives Digital Text and Discourse Analysis

by Stockinger, Peter

• ISBN13: 9781848213937
• ISBN10: 184821393X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-06-18
• Publisher: Wiley-ISTE

Summary

This book explains how to include the coupling between thin wires and electromagnetic waves and how to include passive and active components. A matrix formulation of TLM method is given allowing a rigorous simulation of propagation in a dispersive environment.

Author Biography

Peter Stockinger is Professor at INALCO (National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations) and Director of the ESCoM laboratory (laboratory of cognitive and new media semiotics research) at the Fondation Masion des Sciences de I'Homme (FMSH) in Paris, France.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
The Practical, Technical and Theoretical Context	p. 1
Analysis of an Audiovisual Resource	p. 3
Introduction	p. 3
Functionally different corpora	p. 4
Descriptive models	p. 10
On the activity of analysis of audiovisual corpora	p. 12
On the activity of indexation	p. 14
Some reflections on the subject of the theoretical reference framework	p. 15
The Audiovisual Semiotic Workshop (ASW) Studio - A Brief Presentation	p. 23
A working environment for analyzing corpora of audiovisual texts	p. 23
Brief presentation of the ASW Description Workshop	p. 27
Four approaches to analyzing an audiovisual text	p. 33
Models of description and interactive working forms	p. 36
A Concrete Example of a Model for Describing Audiovisual Content	p. 39
Introduction	p. 39
Selecting the appropriate model from the library of descriptive models of description of audiovisual content	p. 40
The sequences in a model of content description	p. 43
Field of description and sequential organization of an analytical form	p. 46
The level of schemas of definition and procedures of description	p. 48
Model of Description and Task of Analysis	p. 51
Introduction	p. 51
The structural organization of a model of audiovisual content description	p. 52
The canonic syntagmatic order of a form of description	p. 54
Types of analysis, analytical tasks, procedures of description and activities of description	p. 58
Particular tasks in analyzing the content of an audiovisual corpus	p. 61
Concluding remarks	p. 63
Tasks in Analyzing an Audiovisual Corpus	p. 65
The Analytical Task of "Describing the Knowledge Object"	p. 67
Introduction	p. 67
A simple example of referential description	p. 68
Thematic structure, topical structure and referential objects	p. 70
A library of sequences for referential description	p. 73
Alternative functional architectures to define sequences of referential description	p. 76
The Analytical Task of "Contextualizing the Domain of Knowledge"	p. 81
Introduction	p. 81
Contextualization by spatial location	p. 82
Location and contextualization by country	p. 84
Geographical-physical location and contextualization	p. 88
Contextualization by temporal location	p. 93
Contextualization by historical era	p. 96
Historical contextualization and periodization	p. 101
Thematic contextualization	p. 102
The Analytical Task of "Analyzing the Discourse Production around a Subject"	p. 107
Introduction	p. 107
Procedures of discourse production	p. 108
Anatomy of the description of discourse production around a subject	p. 113
Examples illustrating analysis of discourse production	p. 116
Textual and discursive assessment	p. 120
Procedures of Description	p. 123
Definition of the Domain of Knowledge and Configuration of the Topical Structure	p. 125
Introduction	p. 125
Some reminders and specifications	p. 126
(Re-)configuring and adapting an existing topical structure	p. 130
(Re-)configuring more complex topical structures	p. 133
The Procedure of Free Description of an Audiovisual Corpus	p. 139
Introduction	p. 139
Organization of the so-called "free description" procedure	p. 140
The descriptive activity [Minimal designation]	p. 143
The descriptive activity [Contextualized designation]	p. 146
The activities of [Drafting of a summary presentation] and [Designation of the referent in the original language]	p. 149
The descriptive activity [Designation of the referent by keywords]	p. 150
Pragmatic and onomasiological variants of the activity of [Minimal designation]	p. 153
The Procedure of Controlled Description of an Audiovisual Corpus	p. 155
Introduction	p. 155
Organization of the procedure called controlled description	p. 156
Working with several micro-thesauruses	p. 159
Selecting, classifying and ranking terms using a micro-thesaurus	p. 161
An approach combining controlled and free description	p. 163
The ASW System of Metalinguistic Resources	p. 167
An Overview of the ASW Metalinguistic Resources	p. 169
Introduction	p. 169
General overview of the ASW system of metalinguistic resources	p. 170
The ASW meta-lexicon of conceptual terms	p. 174
The ASW thesaurus	p. 177
The schemas of definition	p. 180
The sequences of description	p. 184
Resources external to the ASW system	p. 187
ASW Modeling Workshop	p. 190
The Meta-lexicon Representing the ASW Universe of Discourse	p. 197
Introduction	p. 197
"Conceptual term" and "theme" - a few explanations	p. 198
The definitional structure of a topic	p. 200
The ASW universe of discourse	p. 202
The general organization of the vocabulary relating to analytical objects in the ASW universe of discourse	p. 206
Questions relating to the organization of the ASW vocabulary of conceptual terms representing analytical objects	p. 210
The process of developing the ASW vocabulary of conceptual terms defining analytical objects	p. 214
Detailed Presentation of the Conceptual Vocabulary [Object of analysis]	p. 217
Introduction	p. 217
The two branches [Natural object] and [Object of value]	p. 218
Questions of organization of the ASW meta-lexicon	p. 221
How are we to take account of different classifications?	p. 226
The conceptual domain represented by the term [Functional material object]	p. 229
The conceptual domain represented by the term [Social object]	p. 233
The Conceptual domain represented by the term [Cultural object]	p. 235
Taxonomic domains belonging to the branch [Primary symbolic object]	p. 238
Taxonomic domains belonging to the branch [Secondary symbolic object]	p. 242
The taxonomic domains of the branch [Object "Perdurant"]	p. 245
The taxonomic domains of the branch [Object "Region"]	p. 248
The Meta-lexicon of Activities Involved in Analyzing the Textual Object	p. 251
Introduction	p. 251
Four categories of textual analysis activities	p. 252
The class of activities [Procedure of structural analysis of the textual object]	p. 255
The class of activities [Procedure of analysis of the textual object using the ASW thesaurus]	p. 259
The class of activities [Procedure of analysis using an ASW external reference]	p. 260
The class of activities [Procedure of pragmatic analysis of the textual object]	p. 264
Activity of analysis and schemas of indexation	p. 265
The library of schemas of indexing	p. 268
The ASW Thesaurus	p. 273
Introduction	p. 273
General presentation of the ASW thesaurus	p. 274
Facets and lists of standardized expressions	p. 277
The Configurational Building Blocks of Models of Description	p. 281
Introduction	p. 281
Analysis of an audiovisual text and models of description	p. 282
The library of sequences making up the model of thematic description	p. 284
Definition and insertion of a sequence into a model of description	p. 289
Summary presentation of a library of schemas of definition	p. 292
Conclusion and Perspectives	p. 297
Bibliography	p. 301
Glossary of Specialized Terms	p. 307
Glossary of Acronyms	p. 337
Index	p. 349
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