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16For the investigation of generic parameters, I will rely primarily on the literatureon genre studies and the sociology of science, as well as on the information obtained ininterviews with expert members of the three disciplines, and, in the text analysis proper,I will try to detect the rhetorical moves commonly found in the book reviews in thecorpus.The concept of move usually adopted in Genre Analysis (commonly associatedwith the work of Swales, 1981, 1990) relates to a given schematic structure found in thetext which has specific rules for form and context of use in relation to the function that itperforms in the genre. In research article introductions, for example, writers usuallyadopt a three-move structure: they establish the field in which their research paper willbe contextualized, then they point out to the reader a gap in current research, and finallyshow how their research will fill this gap in the current state of knowledge (Swales,1990:140). Similarly to research articles, book reviews are expected to present a certainset of invariable rhetorical moves.To elaborate the schematic description of the rhetorical moves in the texts in thecorpus, I will adopt the genre-analytical approach put forth by Swales (1981, 1990) witheach text being analyzed for content and form. Specifically in relation to the latter, theanalysis will concentrate on metadiscourse markers: linguistic choices made byreviewers to construct text into a cohesive sequence that function as guideposts for thewriter’s argumentation and the reader’s interpretation of text content (Vande-Kopple,1985).Specifically, I will: