The socio-rhetorical construction of the introduction section in academic articles of the disciplinary culture of the history area

Abstract

This study aims to describe how the History area produces and comprises the Introduction section in academic articles. For this purpose, we rely on studies by Swales (1990), regarding his conception of genres and his methodological proposal CARS (Create a Research Space). Regarding the study of disciplinary culture, we have the theoretical contributions of Hyland (2000; 2009) and Bhatia (2004). Our research, defined as a study of exploratory and descriptive nature, has a corpus of 30 academic articles distributed in four periodicals in the area of History, with stratification A1 according to WebQualis Capes. Considering the research, we found that the Introduction of academic articles of the area under study is configured as an extensive section in which the authors present the contextualization of the object of analysis, the exposition of previous researches, the indication of the objectives of the study and the presentation of the aspects methodologies that made it viable.