A socio-rhetorical analysis of introductions in original articles of the nutrition area`s diciplinary culture

Abstract

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1984-8412.2017v14n1p1749 This study aims to present how the Nutrition area understands and construes the Introduction section in original academic articles. In this regard, we relied on Swales’ theoretical and methodological conceptions (1990) about academics genres, and on Nwogu (1997) and Costa’s (2015) socio-rhetorical descriptions to the area of Medicine. Regarding the description of the disciplinary community under study, we adopted the concept of disciplinary culture postulated by Hyland (2000). Therefore, our research, defined as a study of exploratory and descriptive nature, had a corpus of 30 original academic articles distributed within six Nutrition and Health journals, indexed in the WebQualis CAPES database. According to the analysis, we realized the Introduction was presented as a concise and objective rhetoric unit; however important in the rhetorical configuration of academic articles, considering there is not a rhetorical unit devoted specifically for literature review in this area.

Keywords

• Análise sociorretórica
• Cultura disciplinar
• Área de Nutrição
• Artigo acadêmico original
• Unidade retórica de Introdução