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134audience, authorship, disciplinary knowledge, and previous literature. Its relevance forthe genre seems to bear some parallelism with the importance of Move 1 in researcharticles (RA).In both genres, BR and RA, writers aim to establish the rationale against whichtheir texts can be understood and one way to do that is to make topic generalizations tosituate the article’s or the book’s contribution to the current state of knowledge in thefield. One of the differences between the RA and the BR, however, is that in the RA thewriter aims at making the reader recognize the text as an important contribution along achain of research tradition in the field. In the BR, what is important is the book’scontribution to the literary tradition in the field.In Swales’ (1990) CARS model of article introductions, the writer defines theterritory within which her research can be recognized by reviewing previous research inthe field. The writer acknowledges the work of other researchers and, by doing that,defines the line of research that her work follows, preparing the stance, i.e., the positionfrom which her own work and thus the results to be obtained can be examined.Likewise, in the BR, the writer alludes to the line of publication of the book (topic,theoretical rationale adopted in the book, etc.), either by stating that the new book fills agap left open by previous publications or by showing it continues a tradition (in a seriesdevoted to texts that discuss one topic, for example). Move 1 then sets the backgroundknowledge for the reader to accompany the reviewer in the evaluation of the book.Move 2: The next move to appear in the sequential order of discourse presentationcomprehends the ‘descriptive portion’ of BRs. It describes the book in relation to overall