Geoffrey Leech is Emeritus Professor of
EnglishLinguistics at Lancaster University, where he hasbeen a
faculty member for over 40 years. He haspublished many books and
articles in the fields ofEnglish grammar, stylistics, pragmatics,
semanticsand corpus linguistics. His research career dates from the
1960s, when he produced three books English in Advertising, A
Linguistic Guide to English Poetry,and Towards a Semantic
Description of English, and extends to the present time: his
recent works include Language in Literature 2008 and with
Marianne Hundt, Christian Mair and Nicholas Smith Change in
Contemporary English: A Grammatical Study 2009. Among his
best-known books are Meaning and the English Verb 1971; 3rd ed.
2004, with Jan Svartvik A Communicative Grammar of English
1975; 3rd ed. 2002, Principles of Pragmatics 1983, and with
Randolph Quirk, Sidney.Greenbaum and Jan Svartvik A Comprehensive
Grammar of the English Language 1985. In the 1970s, he was a
pioneer in the development of computer corpus linguistics, creating
with Stig Johansson and others the first available corpus of
British English, the Lancaster-Oslo-Bergen Corpus.Later he led the
Lancaster team as part of the BNC consortium that created the
British National Corpus 1991-5. He studied at MIT for a year in
1964-5,was awarded the distinction of Honorary Professor at Beijing
Foreign Studies University in 1994, and has also held visiting
positions in Australia, France,Japan, New Zealand and the USA. He
was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1987.
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Geoffrey Neil Leech--An Academic Autobiography
Part Ⅰ stylistics:Language in Literature
Linguistics and the Figures of Rhetoric
Pragmatics,Discourse Analysis,Stylistics and“The Celebrated
Letter”
StylisticsIllustrated by all Analysis of Shelley’S Ode to the
West Wind
Part Ⅱ Semantics:The Study of Meaning
Seven Types of Meaning
Semantic Indeterminacy and the Modals
Part Ⅲ Pragmatics and Politeness
Grammar and Rhetoric within a Functional View ofLanguage
Grammar,Pragmatics,and Politeness
Politeness:Is There an East.West Divide?
Part Ⅳ Computers and Corpus Linguistics
General Introduction
Corpora and Theories ofLinguistic Performance
Corpus Annotation Schemes
Part Ⅴ English Grammar
Varieties of English Grammar:The State of the Art from the
Grammarian’S pojnt ofView
A New Gray’S Anatomy of English Grammar
Recent Grammatical Change in English:Data, Description,Theory
Part Ⅵ Grammar,Lexis and English Language Teaching
Students’Grammar—_Teachers’Grammar--Learners’Grammar
The Role of Frequency in ELT:New Corpus Evidence Brings a
Re-appraisal
Part Ⅶ Grammar in Varieties of English
Disjunctive Grammar in British Television Advertising
Grammars of Spoken English:New Outcomes of Corpus—oriented
Research
BibllographicaI References
List of Publications