ENGAGEMENT RESOURCES IN ESP RESEARCH ARTICLE ABSTRACTS

This paper investigates engagement resources employed in research article abstracts the field of English for Specific Purposes. Engagement comprise rhetorical strategies by which authors allow or dismiss alternative viewpoints. Excluding dialogic space opinions is termed contraction, while opening up possibility alternatives expansion. These are described within Appraisal theory Systemic Functional Linguistics. We conducted a corpus-based qualitative analysis on 50 ESP using Martin and White’s analytical method (Martin White 2005), order to investigate occupied writer reader sample. All were written published Taylor & Francis Group period from 2015 2020. identified explicated each move structure we analysed. The results study will show what kind lexicogrammatical structures achieve effects expansion contraction abstracts. awareness evaluative can help novice academic modeling their own texts general.