Persuasion in English Philosophy Texts (CEPhiT)
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Persuasion in English Philosophy Texts (CEPhiT)Date
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Crespo, Begoña y Moskowich, Isabel: Persuasion in English Philosophy Texts (CEPhiT). Journal of Humanistic and Social Studies. vol 6, nº 2, 2015, p. 87-101
Abstract
[Abstract]The aim of this paper is to offer a description of the Corpus of English
Philosophy Texts (CEPhiT) as well as to present a pilot study on persuasion strategies. Although this corpus contains samples from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, only eighteenth-century texts have been selected for this study. Methodologically speaking, some specific linguistic features indicating persuasion and argumentation (Biber, 1988) have been searched for: predictive modals, necessity modals, conditional subordinators and verbs with a suasive meaning. The interpretation of our findings will provide an overview of the author-reader relationship in late Modern English Philosophy writings,
especially focusing on variables such as sex or genre.
Keywords
Scientific english
Corpus linguistics
Persuasion strategies
Late Modern period
Philosophy writing
Authorial presence
Corpus linguistics
Persuasion strategies
Late Modern period
Philosophy writing
Authorial presence
ISSN
2067-6557