A organização retórica do gênero artigo experimental em comunidades disciplinares distintas

Abstract

With this research, we investigated in scientific articles in the areas of Linguistics, Geography and Medicine how rhetorical units (SWALES, 1990) of the texts were organized by experienced members of these communities. As a main aim, we examined if different disciplinary communities (HYLAND, 2000) influenced the construction of academic genres from the assumption that different disciplinary fields construct genres differently. For the analysis of these articles, we used the model of rhetorical organization proposed by Bernardino (2007), which is based on the CARS model (Create a Research Space) proposed by Swales (1990) in his Genre Analysis, to describe the organization and distribution of units. We also used, as theoretical reference, studies concerning discursive communities (SWALES, 1990, 1992, 1998, 2004), the concept of disciplinary community (HYLAND, 2000), and the theoretical premises about experimental article (MOTTA-ROTH, 2001; BERNARDINO, 2007). The analyzed corpus is composed by six experimental articles (BERNARDINO, 2007), wherein two articles of each area are found, selected from a random search in Brazilian journals of A and B Qualis. We aimed to identify lexical traces and physically located marks for the recognition of rhetorical units. The results revealed the influence of areas in the distribution of the information in the texts, since each academic community seems to have particular conventions, norms, nomenclatures and methodologies for the composition of their texts.