O gênero artigo acadêmico e a cultura disciplinar da área do Direito: as primícias de uma análise sociorretórica

Abstract

Researching how different disciplinary cultures (HYLAND, 2000) build academic genres is essential to understand how interactions occur between the pairs of these cultures. This is why the project "Discursive Practices in Academic Disciplinary Communities", coordinated by Dr. Cibele Gadelha Bernardino, from UniversidadeEstadual do Ceará (UECE), seeks to investigate, describe and compare the production of the genre Academic Article in different disciplinary cultures. In this paper, which is the result of a subproject linked to this major project, we analyzed two copies of the genre Academic Article from the corpora of the major project and that were produced by members of the disciplinary area of Law, which were identified as a literature review article and a research paper (cf . BERNARDINO, 2007). Our goal was to investigate how the disciplinary culture of the area of Law builds their academic article genre, stemming from the systematization and description of rhetoric configuration of the analyzed samples, and using the rhetorical models presented by Swales (1990), Motta- Roth and Hendges (2010) and Costa (2015). The analysis showed the possible existence of rhetorical movements not yet described by these authors, such as "Introducing legislation", "Introducing doctrine" and "Introducing cases". The importance of the historical context of the laws that underlie the items is visible in the movement "Building historical context", and the differences in rhetoric configuration identified between research paper and literature review article, such as the presence or absence of the "Methodology" unity are other aspects revealed by our study that are worth mentioning.