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42correspond to the above definition can be expected to have at least one additionalelement besides evaluation and description of the book, showing how the book conformswith disciplinary context, as indicated in Figure 2.6:_______________________________________________________________________Introduction>Relation to Discipline>Description>Evaluation>Review Closure_______________________________________________________________________Figure 2-6 Generic Structure Potential of BRs (Motta-Roth, 1993)‘Relation to the Discipline’ describes how the new book fits the tradition in thefield and/or the current state of knowledge. This element sets the scenery against whichthe main goal of the genre is attained which is to describe (‘Description’) and principallyevaluate (‘Evaluation’) the book. In addition, ‘Introduction’ as the initial element of theGSP of BRs is expected to have linguistic and rhetorical devices that call the reader’sattention to the book as a new publication in the discipline. ‘Review Closure’ signals tothe reader that the reviewing activity is finished referring the reader back to thedisciplinary world.Hasan’s framework is useful in allowing a detailed analysis of the complex set ofelements –– Field, Tenor, and Mode –– that are at work whenever participants of aninteraction use specific language to attain specific objectives. She applies her frameworkto what can be called ‘a real-life genre of service encounters’, but does not offer specificapplications to academic discourse genres. In addition, the categories of analysis used byHasan are too ample and would need to be divided into subcategories to allow for more