De la captatio à la partitio : rhétorique de l'introduction de l'article de recherche

The introductions of research articles can often been described within the well-known frame of the "Creating a Research Space" (CARS) model of John Swales. Yet, this contribution wants to discuss this model in parallel with the ancient rhetoric model of <i>dispositio</i>. It is argued that the CARS model does not envision a <i>captatio benevolentiae</i> in research articles, which are in fact quite often present. Then, the place and importance of the <i>partitio</i>, that is to say the announcement of the plan, is analyzed in a corpus of research articles to highlight this important but somewhat neglected move in the introduction. The aim of this article is to design a model of introduction within a rhetoric and text linguistics point of view.