THE SEMANTIC AREA OF AUTOMATION

Linguistic studies showed us r between the signification of words & their use by various soc groups. Some words characterize historical periods & appear as key-words. These keywords focus conceptual (or 'notional') areas, or 'semantic fields' which are the reflection of g...

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Veröffentlicht in:Cahiers internationaux de sociologie 1970-01, Vol.48, p.153-164
1. Verfasser: Lucas, Yvette
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Zusammenfassung:Linguistic studies showed us r between the signification of words & their use by various soc groups. Some words characterize historical periods & appear as key-words. These keywords focus conceptual (or 'notional') areas, or 'semantic fields' which are the reflection of groups' soc practice. 'Automation' is a key-word of the contemporary period. The content of such a key-word was studied by analyzing responses of workers in automated plants to an open questionnaire referring to jobtasks & professional (industr) context. We may explore the 'notion' in a diachronic line (historical study of the concept 'automation') through authors' texts. It is examined, with a synchronic point of view, for a given soc group (or microgroup) by looking at the structure of the semantic field that the concept overspreads. Such a qualitative analysis inventories the various uses (& connotations) of the notion & classifies them according to the main component topics of the notional area. The content of the notion is subdivided, by referring to associated words, in sub-themes, characters (or qualifications) & qualifiers. For the studied group, the concept of 'automation' is apprehended at 2 diff levels: operating, or practical level, r'ed with job-tasks practice, & referential, or general level, which expresses the perceptions of the relation between automation & soc org (environment). Subthemes, characters & qualifiers reveal that the content of the concept for the group is determinated by the concrete experience of its members about automation. Such an analysis shows the evolution of the signification of a word & of its uses referring to the soc practice of human groups. Modified AA.
ISSN:0008-0276