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14This study thus seeks to obtain a detailed description and a definition of anacademic genre, focusing on the relationship between the configurations assumed bytextual and contextual features. By textual features, I mean the way information isorganized along the text through specific linguistic structures that perform rhetoricalmoves. By context features, I mean the existing characteristic epistemologicalorganization within disciplines, as we move along the academic continuum between theharder sciences (represented by chemistry) and the softer sciences (represented bylinguistics). In sum, the purpose of the present study is to compare three disciplinaryrealizations of the same genre with the intention of determining the invariable schematicorganization of rhetorical moves and lexical phrases, and of defining the variation inevaluative practices across disciplines.1.2 Basic hypotheses of the study1) The initial hypothesis is that the texts that comprehend the corpus will presentcertain general invariable features of rhetorical organization (content, form, linguisticchoices) that will not vary across disciplines. At the same time, some variation will beverified in those features more closely associated with the traditions and conventions ofthe discipline. The results obtained may contribute to the debate about the definition ofgeneric textual boundaries currently held amid Genre Analysts (see, for example,Swales, 1993).2) The second basic hypothesis concerns the rhetorical definition of the genre ofbook reviews. According to Aristotle (1991), there are three types of rhetoric,Deliberative (involving deliberation about the future action in the best interests of the