OLD AND RECENT PREJUDICES ON THE HUMAN VOICE

AN ANALYSIS OF THE DISCOURSE OF PERSISTENT INTOLERANCES

Abstract

Our goal here is to briefly point out some different meanings attributed to the human voice ( "producing a sound in the larynx;" privileged instrument of the passions of the soul, endowed volumes, accents and different rhythms; first and most important of secondary sexual characteristics; " audible air that allows discerning men for their different voices "; fundamental element of seduction, the fonologocentrismo and an ontology of nothingness, noise and being, divine undivided wholeness and human construction analyzable and fitted with devices and articulated segments) to present certain consensus and identify the arguments underlying the euphoric and dysphoric speeches on the human voice in discours about the voice. To do so, launch hand of text clippings that link to voices and of which also provide comments, they are collated in order to highlight stigmas and prejudices attributed to the voice of the masses and the female vocals traits.