A construção da argumentação e a organização retórica na seção de introdução de artigo científico da área de linguística

Abstract

Genres such as scientific articles, abstracts, reviews, dissertations and theses circulate frequently in the academic environment, contributing to the dissemination of scientific knowledge and have been sources for the development of research using the gender analysis approach. Among the genres mentioned above, we chose the scientific article for our study, as it is a genre intended for the publication and dissemination of scientific research, circulating among students and researchers at university for discussion in the various areas of knowledge. We have highlighted the introduction section as an object of study, considering its importance for the scientific article genre and its strategies for constructing the text, so that it can make the reader continue reading the article. The aim of this research is to investigate the construction of argumentation and rhetorical organization in the introductory sections of scientific articles in the field of Linguistics. To do this, we dialogued with the theorists of Genre Analysis such as Swales (1990), Miller (2012), Bazerman (2021), Motta-Roth and Hendges (2010), among others; in relation to researchers who study Argumentation, we rely on the works of Breton (1999), Charaudeau (2008), Fiorin (2018) Koch, Elias (2021) and Perelman Olbrechts-Tyteca (2002). The study is based on qualitative and quantitative research with a corpus of fifteen sections of introductions to scientific articles in the field of Linguistics, selected from three Qualis A1 journals (2017-2020 quadrennium), and collected from the journals' websites. The results show the presence of three movements and eight rhetorical steps, among which we highlight step 7 "Introducing the methodology", considered a new step that is not included in the previous models described in this study. As for the arguments present in the construction of the steps, we have verified their relationship with the rhetorical movements and steps, as well as the argumentative operators, leading us to believe that these strategies are fundamental to promoting the text. Thus, with the analysis carried out, we conclude that the rhetorical moves and steps are related to the arguments, as well as the argumentative operators, which are connected to the defense of the thesis presented, seeking to achieve the communicative purposes of the section.