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Author Moskowich, Isabel

Title 'the Conditioned and the Unconditioned' Late Modern English Texts on Philosophy. Incl. CD-ROM: a Corpus of English Philosophy Texts (CEPhiT)
Published Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (196 p.)
Contents Intro -- 'The Conditioned and the Unconditioned' -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Philosophers and scientists from the Modern Age: Compiling the Corpus of English Philosophy Texts (CEPhiT) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. General outline -- 3. The rationale behind CEPhiT -- 4. Time-span represented -- 5. Authors in CEPhiT -- 6. Genres represented in the corpus -- 7. Sex of authors as a variable -- 8. Geographical distribution of CEPhiT authors -- 9. Validity of CEPhiT -- References -- 2. Genre categorisation in CEPhiT
1. Categorising samples: The procedure -- 2. Genre, not text type -- 3. Genres in the Corpus of English Philosophy Texts (CEPhiT) -- 4. Final remarks -- References -- Appendix -- 3. Editorial policy in the Corpus of English Philosophy Texts: Criteria, conventions, encoding and other marks -- 1. General remarks -- 2. Mark up language -- 3. Editorial marks and decisions -- 4. List of editorial marks used in CEPhiT -- 5. Concluding remarks -- 4. Infrastructure for analysis of the CEPhiT corpus -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Corpus annotation -- 3. Indexing and querying -- 4. Conclusion -- References
5. On the shoulders of giants: An overview on the discussion of science and philosophy in Late Modern times -- 1. Introduction: New perspectives on Late Modern English -- 2. Opinion, point of view and authorial presence in discussions of science and philosophy -- 3. Concluding remarks -- References -- 6. Abstractness as diachronic variation in CEPhiT: Biber's Dimension 5 applied -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Multidimensional Analysis -- 3. Corpus and methodology -- 4. Analysis of data -- 5. Concluding remarks -- References
7. Authorial presence in late Modern English philosophical writing: Evidence from CEPhiT -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Disciplinary community and authorial stance -- 3. Authorial presence in CEPhiT -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- Appendix -- 8. The status of seem in the nineteenth-century Corpus of English Philosophy Texts (CEPhiT) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The meanings of seem -- 3. A short historical overview of seem -- 4. Understanding evidentiality within the system of modality -- 5. Data description and methodology -- 6. Results -- 7. The meaning of seem in CEPhiT -- 8. Conclusion
Acknowledgments -- References -- 9. Explaining the use of if... then... structures in CEPhiT -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Conditionals and ifthen structures in scientific discourse -- 3. Corpus and methodology -- 4. Analysis and discussion of data -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Index
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject English language -- 18th century -- Sources
English language -- 19th century -- Sources
English language -- 20th century -- Sources
Corpora (Linguistics)
English language -- Philosophy -- Sources
Technical writing -- History -- 18th century
Technical writing -- History -- 19th century
Corpora (Linguistics)
English language.
English language -- Philosophy.
Technical writing.
Genre/Form History.
Sources.
Form Electronic book
Author Camiña Rioboo, Gonzalo
Lareo, Inés
Crespo, Begoña
ISBN 9789027262172
9027262179