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55citation verbs (Swales 1986; Thompson and Yiyun, 1991). Here citation will beexamined in terms of the form it assumes (e.g., if dates are given).The idea of disciplinary value can relate to characteristic ways of arguing in thedisciplinary matrix for the acceptance of new published material, taking into accountwhat is considered to be important/unimportant or desirable/undesirable in theintellectual apparatus of the field. In BRs, values will be studied in the form of particularlinguistic devices called ‘terms of praise and blame’. These linguistic devices used inevaluation are further elaborated in Chapter 4, but for now it suffices to say that they areused in rhetoric to demonstrate the merit of a given person or thing (Aristotle, 1991:48).2.5 Further comments on genre-related issuesSome further considerations about genre are due at this point. Amid a proliferationof genre approaches, there are at least three basic issues in contention amongpractitioners: 1) the ways in which one can determine genre-boundaries; 2) the ways theconcepts of genre and register interrelate; and 3) the status of GA as a text-bound studyor as a study that involves, to a great extent, an analysis of an ethnographic type (Swales1993a:687-8).)2.5.1 Structural boundariesIn relation to the first point, structural approaches to GA in terms of moves andsteps have received criticism both from genre theorists that tend to focus on therhetorical action performed by genres and writing instructors that support processorientedapproaches. Criticism specially attacks a very sensible point in GA, namely,