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39In an attempt to define the contextual features of the genre, Hasan’s frameworkhas been applied to BRs (Motta-Roth, 1993) and questions related to the three contextualvariables of Field, Tenor, and Mode came into consideration:What is the social activity being carried out in the genre? What's the contentof a BR? What is the goal being instantiated in the BR? (Field)Who are the participants in the genre? What is the relationship between theparticipants? (Tenor)What role is language playing in this context? How does the text organizeitself around the communicative goals of BRs? What are the channel and themedium used? (Mode)The resulting CC variables corresponding to BRs are represented in Figure 2.4:_______________________________________________________________________Field: evaluation and description of a newly published academic book considering thecurrent system of values and knowledge in the discipline; participants share aconvergent aim: to search for and to provide critical opinion about the book.Tenor: the reader and the writer; specialist writer (authority) to reader (member of theacademic community); unseen and unknown readership; maximum social distance(relationship institutionalized by the configuration of disciplinary communities inacademia and by the review section in the specialized journal).Mode: constitutive language role (text is the whole of the communicative instance,consisting of persuasive writing to influence the audience to read/not to read thereviewed book); channel: graphic; medium: written; composed to be read in silence;monologue; public act (potentially anyone can have access to the published text)._______________________________________________________________Figure 2-4 Contextual Configuration of BRs (Motta-Roth, 1993)