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http://hdl.handle.net/2183/16678 Persuasion in English Philosophy Texts (CEPhiT)
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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
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[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.