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1294.4 Concluding remarksAs has been pointed out in Chapter 2, determination of move boundaries is not aclear-cut process. As other approaches to genre analysis (e.g., Bhatia, 1993; Hasan,1985), move analysis is a rather subjective (content- and form-based) analytical processthat depends on the observation of a combination of various linguistic features that pointtowards the rhetorical organization of the text. More than one signaling device is usuallyfound in any one given passage, as illustrated by the following example:(i) For the student...it is (ii) an ideal book...There are at least two different signaling devices in the example above: explicitlexemes (i) that signal to the reader the kind of audience that will most probably profitfrom the book; and attitude markers (ii) that signal positive evaluation. Therefore, it isimportant to have in mind that the analysis will have to account for overlappingcategories, that is, at times move embedding will happen and certain words orexpressions will function as more than one of these types of Metadiscourse. In thatrespect, the context plays an important role in deciding which the main function of agiven item is.In the next chapter I will proceed to the text analysis proper, trying to identify thegeneric text structure of BRs within the theoretical-methodological framework definedhere.