Discourses about the voice in contemporary Brazilian media

• Grant number: 14/09947-3
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: August 01, 2014
• End date: July 31, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Linguistics - Linguistic Theory and Analysis
• Principal Investigator: Carlos Félix Piovezani Filho
• Grantee: Carlos Félix Piovezani Filho
• Host Institution: Centro de Educação e Ciências Humanas (CECH). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This research aims to analyze discourses about the voice produced by contemporary Brazilian media and materialized in texts from national's newspapers and magazines. Based on Discourse Analysis, derived from Michel Pêcheux, combined with contributions coming from the works of Michel Foucault, we will try to identify what these texts say about the voice and how they do it. More precisely, our purpose is to answer the following questions: what, how and why the statements about the voice are produced in our society? What are the fields where these statements are incorporated, reformulated and deleted? When they speak about the voice? There are differences in the way of the medias speak about the voice in different social spheres, such as in technology, politics and entertainment? There are variations in the treatment of the voice in vehicles more or less progressive or conservative? In order to formulate answers to these questions, we will analyze a series of texts of the newspapers Folha de São Paulo, O Estado de São Paulo and Brasil de Fato, and magazines Veja and Carta Capital, published between January 2010 and December 2013. (AU)