BAKHTIN IN DIFFERENT VOICES: TWO ETHNOGRAPHIC SKETCHES ABOUT INTONATION
In the preface to a compilation of two analytical sketches, the return of social researchers to the voice in its connection with social phenomena and processes is grounded. Qualitative social studies are characterized as an epistemological machine for translating orality into literacy accessible to slow analysis. Transcript is considered as both a condition of possibility and an instrument of social constructionist analyses. The author considers the conditions for the possibility of returning the voice “forgotten” in the process of translation to the language of social studies. Attention to nonsemiotic aspects of human existence, a turn to the embodiment and affect, discovering the wordless social worlds are considered as the bases for analytical restoration of the voice. However, the intonational trajectory of the authors of this collection is different: it goes back to their experience in preparing transcripts of the interview in a research digital project and reveals a connection with the legacy of Bakhtin.