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147function of each sentence in separate. Thus the establishment of moves and subfunctionsin those cases which presented move embedding, recursiveness, or reorderingdemanded a close analysis of the immediate context of the sentence, of the whole text,and also of the other texts in the corpus for the purpose of comparison and definition ofconsistent criteria.In order to demonstrate how stretches of text consistently realize the samerhetorical sub-function across disciplines and in order to show the linguistic clues thatcan be associated with these sub-functions, in the remaining of this chapter each one ofthese sub-functions will be discussed and exemplified with excerpts from chemistry,linguistics, and economics.5.4 Rhetorical sub-functions in BRs5.4.1 Sub-functions appearing in Move 1 - Introducing the bookReviewers usually open the BR with an introduction of the book by providing thereader with five types of information represented by each sub-function below, aspreviously introduced:Sub-function 1and/orSub-function 2and/orSub-function 3and/orSub-function 4and/orSub-function 5Defining the general topic of the bookInforming about potential readershipInforming about authorMaking topic generalizationsInserting book in the field