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148Each one of the five sub-functions can alone or in combination realize Move 1,providing background information on the topic, readership, author, and field of the newpublication to contextualize the description and the evaluative comments that follow.Therefore, although the five sub-functions in Move 1 rarely appear at the same time,they are not mutually exclusive ix .5.4.1.1 Sub-function 1 - Defining the general topic of the bookSub-function 1 is a frequent component in BRs, appearing in 35 of the 60 texts(58.33%). With this sub-function, the reviewer provides information about the topic ofthe book or about the theoretical approach used by the author to discuss such topic.Reviewers often call attention to the book in the opening sentence with a nominal phrasethat can assume one of the following forms, with the latter as the most frequentlyadopted: (a) the title of the book in italics; (b) the pronoun This; (c) a cataphoric nominalphrase such as ‘this/the book/volume’ accompanied by a verb in the present tense.Usually the verbal form ‘is’ plus a subject complement appears accompanying (b) and(c), as seen in Table 5-3.Table 5-Erro! Apenas o documento principal.- Move 1: Focus on the book in Subfunction1NOMINAL PHRASEPRESENT TENSE + SUBJECT COMPLEMENT