o:3240 Engagement resources in academic discourse: ǂa ǂstudy of ELT and ESP research article abstracts Resursi angažovanja u akademskom diskursu : studija o apstraktima naučno-istraživačkih radova iz oblasti nastave engleskog jezika i engleskog jezika za posebne namene : doctoral dissertation sr Academic writing serves not only to communicate research findingsbut also to position the writer within a specific social and disciplinarycontext. Grounded in this perspective, the present study exploresacademic discourse as dialogic in nature, focusing on how authorsconstruct evaluative stance and engage with the academic community.Drawing on Appraisal Theory of Systemic Functional Linguistics,particularly the Engagement subsystem (Martin & White, 2005), thestudy examines the use of heteroglossic expressions in research articleabstracts. The analysis aims to uncover how writers manage dialogicspace through strategies of dialogic contraction and expansion,thereby shaping interpersonal meaning. The sample comprises 200research article abstracts—100 from the field of English LanguageTeaching (ELT) and 100 from English for Specific Purposes (ESP). Amixed-methods approach is employed, combining corpus-basedquantitative analysis using UAM CorpusTool with qualitativeinterpretation. The study follows a threefold structure: (1) analysis ofEngagement resources across the entire sample, (2) examination oftheir distribution across rhetorical moves, and (3) comparison of ELTand ESP sub-samples. Findings indicate a relatively balanced use ofdialogic contraction and expansion overall, with a slight preferencefor expansion (51.2%). The second approach provides a detailedanalysis of how the frequency and function of specific Engagementstrategies vary across rhetorical moves. Comparative analysisrevealed marginally higher use of expansion in ELT and contractionin ESP, with statistically significant differences in only three of thenine strategies examined. This study contributes to the understandingof interpersonal language use in academic writing and holdspedagogical implications for teaching academic writing, particularlyin the fields of ELT and ESP. Bibliografija: str. 224-235 Datum odbrane: 20.01.2026. Linguistics, Systemic Functional Linguistics 91552100 185260297 91552101 8810 2026-03-31T12:06:06.053Z 45 no 46 Katarina M., 1988- Ilić 133306377 2025 63 mentor Violeta, 1973- Stojičić 9745255 2025 63 predsednik komisije Tatjana, 1964- Paunović 7465831 2025 63 član komisije Tatjana, 1965- Đurpvić 12454503 2025 239 str. 3931715 http://phaidrani.ni.ac.rs/o:3240 no yes 12 2026-03-31T12:06:06.320Z 70 engagement resources, appraisal theory, academic discourse,research article abstracts, English Language Teaching (ELT), Englishfor Specific Purposes (ESP), corpus-based analysis, dialogic space,dialogic contraction, dialogic expansion resursi angažovanja, teorija vrednovanja, akademski diskurs,apstrakti naučno-istraživačkih radova, nastava engleskogjezika (ELT), engleski jezik za posebne namene (ESP), analizakorpusa, prostor za dijalog, suženje dijaloga, proširenjedijaloga 81'42:001.814(043.3) H 004; H 350 1738 18A13 18A1308 2025