THE MINIMUM VOICE: FEMININE MODES OF SUBJECTIVITY IN THE SONG

This paper  analyses  the relation of feminine voice performance  in the years of radio age and the way the brazilians singers sings today.  The goal is to analyze enunciative traces of a singular subjectivity anchored in the singing voice. The paper focus the moment, since the years of 1980, when the feminine voice no longer sounds like the  singers of the  gold radio time. In this period, to display a dramatic mark  in the voice was the production conditions of the singing woman. In the area of ​​the French school of discourse analysis, this paper is a part of a larger research in progress. We intend to describe the certain mode of feminine subjectivity acting  in the voice as an act of enonciation.

The Role of the Image in the Press Media – The Subject in Agony of a Party

This article deals with the functioning of images in the press media discourse. For so, we take the French Discourse Analysis proposed by Pêcheux as theoretical support and make use of the notions of subject, meaning, intericonicity and policromy. Problems of the analysis at this level in the French Discourse Analysis are pointed out, especially because of the need for new theoretical devices which are able to analyze the image objects adequately. After this contextualization, a brief analysis of the article The Agony of a Political Party, published by Veja Magazine in 2005, will be done and which deals with the supposed kickback crisis and the Brazilian Labor Party. It is impossible, in our understanding, to make any analysis of the verbal text adequately and pertinently separating it from the non-verbal text; thus, both the linguistic  and non-linguistic plans will be analyzed together in this proposition.