A voz no contexto político: análise dos recursos vocais e gestuais no discurso de senadores

Abstract

Nowadays voice area has increased more and more its studies in order to focus on the I major aspects that surrounds the use and the applications of the voice, in special its using associated with professional activities. In the specific case of the political activity there is a lack of material and studies describing and analyzing the principal aspects and factors involving the usage of the voice connected to this professional application. The objective of this study is to describe the range of vocal and gesture resources employed by politicians in their daily activity, in special when they perform their political discourse. Through a methodology that considers, for vocal resources the intonation movement, intensity, duration and pause, and for gesture resources arms and hands movement used during the speeches, and understand by a interview with Senators what is the judgement they have about themselves. For the execution of this study the material that supports its development were taken from the archives of "TV Senado", including visual material of three specific Senators (1, 2 and 3) during their speeches at the Federal Senate. The Senators where selected from the press that was answering by people that works in communications areas at the Senate. It is important to notice that all vocal and gesture resources, proposed in this study, were annotated, although their use by the Senators vary greatly. The Senator 1 presents, with more evidence, a lot of parts of his discourse with voice much high intensity, and a sort of different types of gestures with continuous movements, not related to the speech. The speech of Senator 2 could be defined as a speech that uses a constantly descendent intonation of voice in the end of parts, combined with a small but repeated so11 of gestures which are related to the speech. Senator 3 speech was marked with constantly changes in the intonation of the voice, sometimes ascendants, sometimes descendents in the end of parts, frequently, duration resourses, with a sort of different types of gestures, usually related to the speech. It was observed from the features of the speeches and the results of the interviews with the Senators that there is an individuality in each of the speeches, reflecting different types and ways of using the voice and gesture resources, commented by the informers that was answering the press. It was found a great and rich universe of contents quoted by Senators in the interview, different possibilities unexplored by the current manuals of oratory. What was appointed at the end was the impossibility of making a final standard in the form of using the long range of different vocal and gesture resources that the politicians adopt in their professional activity. It should be remarked that this study does not exhaust the analysis of the theme, but tries to contribute with a different perspective of the issue related to the voice studies of political speeches