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60‘evaluating’ starts). If, however, that can ever be answered thoroughly, the safest way todo it seems to be through encompassing and detailed text studies.Due to the difficulty in attaining consensus as to the definition of move and step,for the purposes of analysis, move is defined here as a text block, a stretch of discoursethat can extend for one or more sentences, that realizes a specific communicativefunction, and that together with other moves constitute the whole information structurethat must be present in the text to allow it to be recognized as an exemplar of a givengenre. Each move represents a stage in the development of an overall structure ofinformation that is commonly associated with the genre as a pattern of discourse.A move encompasses a series of smaller functional units or speech acts, such asreporting or questioning, that realize the writer's intentions in accordance with theconstraints imposed by the genre, which I will simply call sub-function of each move(instead of other term as, for instance, ‘step’, in Swales‘ terminology).Moves are here defined in terms of the function that they play in the genre, ‘thepart which uttering [or writing] these words plays in the language-game...(the functionutterances have in the technique of using language.)’ (Wittgenstein, [1953]1958:10,§21). Language-games, as seen in the light of the Austrian philosopher’s tradition, referto the necessary connection that language and human activities bear, so that language ispart of an activity, or of a form of life (ibid.:88, § 241).Specifically in the case of BRs, each move is a stretch of text that advances thereviewer's intentions, contributing to the development of the overall text that presents anew publication to the journal readership. Sub-functions are smaller parts of moves that