ANIMAZIONE cf. also Lexisdb

ANIMATION animation

THE TERM IN CONTEXT

To see many contexts, click here: , Viganò, Vecchi, Ratio, General Chapters, GC25, Chavez

animazione has been selected as a key concept, since it appears to touch on much of Salesian life and organisation: community, style, ministry of leadership, Salesian Family, working with the young, the Liturgy...

LINGUISTIC COMMENT

It is helpful to note the several NP (noun phrase) structures containing the term: the most frequent collocation of animazione with another term is in the NP animazione e governo (animation and government), two nouns conjoined with and. Other NP forms are: Noun (e.g. progetto) di animazione, animazione di/della Noun (e.g. CEP or pastoral and educative community). A third structure is the noun followed by adjective, as in animazione missionaria (missionary animation). This particular example is almost as high in frequency as is animazione e governo.

In fact the N+animazione structure is predominant and the nouns include: progetto, strutture, servizio, aree, organismi (organising bodies), compito (task), responsabilità, capacità... giving the clear impression that animation is something which needs to be managed and organised, with people who have responsibility and capability for it.

Contextual examples:

(note that the contexts are many, some 800 or more. These are best viewed above)

...per aiutare a svolgere unitariamente in tutta la Congregazione il servizio di animazione proprio del Consiglio Superiore. Il significato spirituale ...	AGC291 Viganò
...ragazzi si trovano, intescambiano e progettano e forza morale con capacità di animazione, stimolo e risveglio. Assume il doppio aspetto della preventività...	AGC354 Vecchi
...per essere veramente tra i giovani segni dell’amore di Dio, centri di animazione spirituale della CEP e della Famiglia Salesiana. Nella società ....	AGC372 Vecchi
... del Capitolo e, nella seconda parte, la verifica delle strutture di animazione e del governo centrale. Ad essa seguono le deliberazioni e gli orien	AGC378 Chavez

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STATISTICS

(explanation: R1-5 indicate a word 1-5 places to the right of the ‘central term’; L1-5 ..... to the left...)

Over the entire corpusdb we find animazione in 151 out of 247 texts, or 68.95%. This frequency suggests that the term is meaningful for Salesian discourse, at least in a linguistic sense. We know from other factors that this is true at other levels of the discourse, though note the comment in keywords below.

It appears 828 times in more than a million words in corpusdb. This is calculated as a frequency of 0.5. The noun with greatest frequency in the corpus (0.44) is vita (life). Only grammatical words like di (of), e (and) la (the), che (that) etc. have a frequency of 1.0 or more. The most frequent is di (3.89).

When the term is part of a group (3 word cluster), the most frequent clusters are: animazione e governo – animation and government (41x), But a range of other words collocate with animazione significantly: pastorale (R1 32x), comunità (R2, 33x), salesiana (R3 21x), formazione (R2 12x), ispettoriale (R1 18x), vocazionale (R1 36x), missionaria (R1 40x) .

Keywords (a keyword is a word calculated for frequency in texts where it appears, and then on the basis of a reference text – the corpus. These two are then calculated in respect of each other to arrive at ‘keyness’, which is an unusually high frequency of appearance)

animazione is not a keyword across the entire corpus, but it is in certain individual tetxs, e.g. GC25.

Lexical ‘keyness’ is not always an indicator of the importance of a concept – it is useful in determining what might be a concept, but not for proclaiming the importance of a concept. animazione is possibly a keyword for Salesian discourse today, and has been selected as one of the organising concepts for the puprose of this instrument.