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 CONSTITUTION OF SUBJECTS AND MEANINGS: THE CASE OF THE QUOTAS FOR BLACK PEOPLE

ABSTRACT: In this study, I bring aspects that are related to the constitution of subjects and meanings, according to the French Discourse Analysis approach. As for that, I use four discursive sequences – corpus – taken from articles about quotas for black people published in Veja magazine. The main objective in this study is to discuss and relate theoretical propositions of the French Discourse Analysis about the constitution of the subject and of the meaning with the corpus for analysis, which composes a research recently concluded. The work is mainly based in the studies of Pêcheux (2009 [1988]). Under the theoretical perspective of the French Discourse Analysis, we may affirm that the subject is considered an effect of external processes which constitute him and which, meanwhile, erase this mechanism. The referred constitution results in the evidence that the subject is the origin, the controller of the meanings he expresses, or that are produced through his saying. Thus, it will be possible to ask “how or why is the subject an effect?” and “how can he not be the origin and the source of what is enunciated, if every person can only think about himself as being a subject (I am… I think…)?”. It is guided by these questions that I develop the observations of the referred approach.   KEYWORDS: subject; meaning effects; discourse.