Books written by Geoffrey Leech

The Pragmatics of Politeness

Harlow, Essex: Pearson/Longman. ——. 2005. Default semantics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ——. 2006/2010. Defaults in semantics and pragmatics. ... Jucker, A. H., and I. Taavitsainen. 2000. Diachronic speech act References 327.
Change in Contemporary English: A Grammatical Study

*Harry Hopkins, by who Christian Asman was employed, said . . ] Even the expected collocation, by whom, is a rare combination of words. In the four corpora of the Brown family it is attested a mere nine times, of which seven instances ...
English Grammar for Today: A New Introduction

Now thoroughly revised and updated to meet the needs of today's students, this new edition features: - a new Foreword by the English Association - an additional introductory chapter, 'Getting Started with Grammar', which introduces the ...
Word Frequencies in Written and Spoken English: based on the British National Corpus

... dawns О 74 73 cut Verb 184100 96 damp 78 96 97 Dawson NOP 10 79 61 cut 745 700 96 damper О 15 52 Dawson 70 79 67 cuts 72 700 92 dance NOC 35 99 88 day NOC 940 100 97 cutting 28 700 96 dance 30 99 88 day 670 700 97 cutting NOC 16 100 ...
English – One Tongue, Many Voices

Morrison, Alistair (1965) Let Stalk Strine. Sydney: Ure Smith. Mugglestone, Lynda (2003) 'Talking ... Quinion, Michael (2004) Port Out, Starboard Home and Other Language Myths. London: Penguin. Quirk, Randolph (1974) 'Shakespeare and ...
Word Frequencies in Written and Spoken English: based on the British National Corpus

Andersen G and Stenström AB 1996 COLT: a progress report. ICAME Journal 20: 133–136. ... In Garside R, Leech G, and Sampson G. (eds), The computational analysis of English: A corpusbased approach. London, Longman, pp. ... Lyne A 1985 The.
English – One Tongue, Many Voices

This is the fully revised and expanded second edition of English - One Tongue, Many Voices, a book by three internationally distinguished English language scholars who tell the fascinating, improbable saga of English in time and space.
Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English

The " Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English " is a revolutionary, corpus-based reference grammar of English, based on a groundbreaking research project to analyze the ways in which...
Longman Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English Workbook Arab Ouedition

This is the workbook to accompany the 'Longman Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English'.
Learner English on Computer

This volume presents articles on all aspects of computer learner corpus research. Although the main focus of the book is English as a Foreign Language, the approach can also be applied to other foreign languages.
Glossary of English Grammar

This book is indispensable for anyone wishing to understand present-day terminology of English grammar more fully.
The Verb Phrase in English: Investigating Recent Language Change with Corpora

Change and continuity in the English language: studies on complementation over the past three hundred years. ... Watching English grammar change: a case study on complement selection in British and American English.
Remedial English Language

Remedial English Language
Longman Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English

This grammar reference is written for the advanced student.
Language in Literature: Style and Foregrounding

In this book, seven earlier papers and articles, read previously only by a restricted audience, have been brought together with four new chapters, the whole volume showing a continuity of approach across a period when all too often literary ...
English - One Tongue, Many Voices

This is the fully revised and expanded second edition of English - One Tongue, Many Voices, a book by three internationally distinguished English language scholars who tell the fascinating, improbable saga of English in time and space.
Change in Contemporary English: A Grammatical Study

Based on the systematic analysis of large amounts of computer-readable text, this book shows how the English language has been changing in the recent past, often in unexpected and previously undocumented ways.
Language in Literature: Style and Foregrounding

Style and Foregrounding Geoffrey Leech. e. major goals and minor goals (i.e. ... discourse analysis tended to suffer, like speech act theory, from an over ... multiple-goal model. We can consider Grice's Maxims of Cooperation and the ...