Funcions and effects the voix elements in the free television time for Election

Abstract

From considerations of a discursive approach of the relations between sounds and meanings, the work reflects, first, on some functions of the voice in the constitution of meanings in Brazilian electoral political discourse. More specifically, we analyze discursive sequences extracted from the Free Television Time for Election 2002 Presidential Election, describing and interpreting certain uses and effects of segments, suprasegments and prosodic elements employed in the programs of Lula and Serra. After this analysis, the study concludes with a reflection on an anthropological trait included in the human voice and with a hypothesis about a kind of nostalgia for the voice against the emergence of certain technologies of language.