Persuasion in English Philosophy Texts (CEPhiT)
Persuasion in English Philosophy Texts (CEPhiT)
Author(s): Begoña Crespo, Isabel MoskowichSubject(s): Philosophy, Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Editura Universității Aurel Vlaicu
Keywords: scientific English; corpus linguistics; persuasion strategies; late Modern period; philosophy writing; authorial presence
Summary/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.
Journal: Journal of Humanistic and Social Studies
- Issue Year: 6/2015
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 087-101
- Page Count: 15
- Language: English