The strangeness, excess and lack in the construction of a methodological framework for voice discursive analysis

Abstract

Considering the notions of “lack”, “excess” and “strangeness”, from the perspective of materialist discourse analysis, I sustain that those three elements are constitutive of the construction process of a methodological framework that considers the prosodic materiality of the voice to be significant. I present the construction of a discursive object of research in which I intend to analyze the discourse of the Minister-Rapporteur during the trial of the “Mensalão” by the Brazilian Supreme Court. I also show how, from the first file reading and listening gestures, I end up with the “reported speech” as the regularity of that discourse, marked by the presence of another in the linguistic linearity. In conclusion, I discuss three concerns during the construction of the framework: the transcript of the speech of the Minister audios; the status given to the “reported speech” in the research; and the balance between horizontal exhaustiveness and vertical exhaustiveness.