Os Ethé do parecerista de pareceres publicados na revista Encontros Bibli

Abstract

Since 2003, there is a proliferation of scientific journals on line in Brazil fostered by the use of the Open Journal System whose Portuguese-language version was promoted by IBICT as a first stage of the Open Science movement. Later steps of this movement includes opening the process of evaluating articles, sharing primary data and pre-depositing articles into preprint repositories. As a consequence of the implementation of this agenda there are Brazilian journals that publish reviewers of article. The publication of those texts enables this genre to be better described and known. In this context, this article analyses the ethos of the author of a reviewer published text by identifying the linguistic resources and rhetorical strategies employed for this. In the first section, theories on which the research is based, Functional Linguistics and Rhetoric,  and some previous studies on the subject are presented; in the second section, the methodology used for the constitution of the corpus formed by 10 published in Encontros Bibli journal in 2019 and 2020 is described; in the third section, there is identification and description of the strategies employed in the corpus to establish the ethé of the reviewers and, at the end, final remarks are made about the contributions and limitations of the research. The qualities of the classic ethos, according to Aristotle, focus on equity, a sense of justice, impartiality, exemption and neutrality. The results of the analysis of the sample of reviewer´s texts show that the context of the evaluation of scientific articles, the ideals of Open Science and the image of oneself sought by the reviewers of the opinions of the analysed corpus reconfigured the qualities pointed out by the philosopher in three ethé: that of the objective and neutral reviewer, that of the respectful, polished and educated reviewer and that of the democratic and open reviewer.