Crespo, BegoñaMoskowich, Isabel2016-05-162016-05-162015Crespo, Begoña y Moskowich, Isabel: Persuasion in English Philosophy Texts (CEPhiT). Journal of Humanistic and Social Studies. vol 6, nº 2, 2015, p. 87-1012067-6557http://hdl.handle.net/2183/16678[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.engScientific englishCorpus linguisticsPersuasion strategiesLate Modern periodPhilosophy writingAuthorial presencejournal articleopen access