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Studies in Honour of Geoffrey Leech
Corpus linguistics is a relatively new subject in linguistics, whereby corpora of spoken or written texts are stored on computer and used as a major s...
Style and Foregrounding
Leech sets the concept of foregrounding (also known as defamiliarization) at the heart of the interplay between form and interpretation. Through pract...
"Written by one of the world's most distiguished grammarians, this glossary provides clear and concise definitions of the key terminology of English g...
Over the years, pragmatics - the study of the use and meaning of utterances to their situations - has become a more and more important branch of lingu...
A Festschrift for Geoffrey Leech
Geoffrey Leech is one of the pioneers of modern computer corpus linguistics. This Festschrift contains contributions from colleagues around the world ...
This is a pedagogical and reference grammar book. This third edition, which includes more examples taken from various language sources, will provide h...
The completely redesigned Grammar of Spoken and Written English is a comprehensive corpus-based reference grammar. GSWE describes the structural chara...
Every language has its peculiar problems of meaning for the foreign learner. In the English language, some of the biggest yet most fascinating problem...
This readable book presents a new general theoretical understanding of politeness. It offers an account of a wide range of politeness phenomena in Eng...
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Seeks to demonstrate that the study of English poetry is enriched by the insights of modern linguistic analysis, and that linguistic and critical disc...
A Linguistic Introduction to English Fictional Prose
"Stylistics" is the study of language in the service of literary ends, and in Style in Fiction, Geoffrey Leech and Mick Short demonstrate how stylisti...
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 ...
Hauptwerk. 1
Jan Svartvik
The aim of this book is to show the way forward to a coherent view of language in which the achievement of the formalist paradigm is strengthened to t...
In a completely thoroughly edition of 'An A-Z of English Grammar and Usage' - an established favourite among teachers - Geoffrey leech and his colleag...
Based on the British National Corpus
Aimed at all language professionals, and those interested in how words are used, this reference work provides key information on how English is spoken...
This accessible introduction to grammar includes points presented in an alphabetical format....
The IBM/Lancaster Approach
This book is about building computer programs that parse (analyze, or diagram) sentences of a real-world English. The English we are concerned with mi...
Investigating Recent Language Change with Corpora
"The chapters in this volume feature new and groundbreaking research carried out by leading scholars and promising young researchers from around the w...
Words and their meanings. Block 3