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192longer genre such as the research article (Nwogu, 1990:180-81), abstracts indeedconstitute a short-length genre.Another feature is synthesized by L in Chapter 3, as she states that most BRs arepositive. This is indeed the case, since among the 58 BRs carrying Move 4, most of them(44 or 75.86%) can be said to make a positive recommendation while only 14 (or24.13%) can be said to carry a negative evaluation.A third feature concerns the hedging quality to BRs. Between the two alternativesin Move 4, Sub-function 10B, Recommending the book despite indicated shortcomings,is the most frequent one (56.9%) ix . This greater frequency of the hedged alternative forSub-function 10 would suggest that Wiley’s (1993) assertion that because the reviewwill probably have more readers than the actual book, reviewers commonly end theirtexts with a ‘hedging tone’ (see 3.2.9). Reviewers would perform the last movegenerally with a hedging tone to make their texts look ‘safer’ and probably avoid strongreactions.Although book review editors’ and researchers’ intuitions about BRs andreviewers seem to hold true in several instances, some inconsistency has been foundconcerning text structure. Differently from Drewry’s (1966:62) interpretation of therhetorical movement in BRs as an inverted pyramid (Chapter 3), a more adequaterepresentation seems to be the trapezoid-like figure, in which the focus shifts fromGLOBAL to LOCAL then GLOBAL again as seen in example [L#1] in Figure 5-3._______________________________________________________________________+ GLOBAL