Documentary content analysis of narrative texts: epistemological backgrounds and methodological perspectives

Abstract

Considering that the library information treatment is basically devoted to subsidize research and leisure (differently from archival information treatment which is mostly devoted to guarantee the legal and proofvalue of information), it is possible to state that the information professional is able to, intuitively, distinguish a scientific text from a narrative text of fiction. In this way, and considering that the document analysis bigger efforts were dedicated in order to evidence metodological procedures suitable to scientific texts, which allows us to question in what extent can be defined a narrative text for subject analysis purposes. It can be affirmed, then, that the differentiation between the texts inhabits in the textual structure. In this sense, the aim is to establish methodologies to the subject analysis that can contemplate the narrative text of fiction. In this way, from a text of a contemporary author, it is applied the classification of the subject with the abstraction of concepts, by using the Generative Sense Course, for the construction of an index, objectifying the indexation of the concepts. As a result, it was obteined subsidies for a thematic recovery of the narrative text of fiction, in a fast and efficient way. In such a way, it can be concluded that the Content Analysis of narrative texts of fiction, through the use of the Gerative Sense Course, is revealed as feasible.