Background
Leech, Geoffrey Neil was born on January 16, 1936 in Gloucester, England. Son of Charles Richard and Dorothy Eileen (Foster) Leech.
(In recent decades a revolution in linguistic thought has ...)
In recent decades a revolution in linguistic thought has restored semantics to a central position in the study of language. Geoffrey Leech's book is a study of the issues thus brought to the fore.
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(In recent decades a revolution in linguistic thought has ...)
In recent decades a revolution in linguistic thought has restored semantics to a central position in the study of language. Geoffrey Leech's book is a study of the issues thus brought to the fore.
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( "Stylistics" is the study of language in the service of...)
"Stylistics" is the study of language in the service of literary ends, and in Style in Fiction, Geoffrey Leech and Mick Short demonstrate how stylistic analysis can be applied to novels and stories. Writing for both students of English language and English literature, they show the practical ways in which linguistic analysis and literary appreciation can be combined, and illuminated, through the study of literary style. Drawing mainly on major works of fiction of the last 150 years, their practical and insightful examination of style through texts and extracts leads to a deeper understanding of how prose writers achieve their effects through language. Since its first publication in 1981, Style in Fiction has established itself as a key textbook in its field, selling nearly 30,000 copies. Now, in this revised edition, the authors have added substantial new material, including two completely new concluding chapters. These provide an extensive, up-to-date survey of developments in the field over the past 25 years, and apply the methods presented in earlier chapters to an analysis of an entire short story. The Further Reading section and the bibliographical references have also been thoroughly updated. In 2005 Style in Fiction was awarded the 25th Anniversary Prize by PALA (The Poetics and Linguistics Association) as the most influential book published in the field of stylistics 1980. Further proof, if proof were needed, that Style in Fiction remains a classic guide to its discipline.
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(Over the years, pragmatics - the study of the use and mea...)
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 linguistics, as the inadequacies of a purely formalist, abstract approach to the study of language have become more evident. This book presents a rhetorical model of pragmatics: that is, a model which studies linguistic communication in terms of communicative goals and principles of 'good communicative behaviour'. In this respect, Geoffrey Leech argues for a rapprochement between linguistics and the traditional discipline of rhetoric. He does not reject the Chomskvan revolution of linguistics, but rather maintains that the language system in the abstract - i.e. the 'grammar' broadly in Chomsky's sense - must be studied in relation to a fully developed theory of language use. There is therefore a division of labour between grammar and rhetoric, or (in the study of meaning) between semantics and pragmatics. The book's main focus is thus on the development of a model of pragmatics within an overall functional model of language. In this it builds on the speech avct theory of Austin and Searle, and the theory of conversational implicature of Grice, but at the same time enlarges pragmatics to include politeness, irony, phatic communion, and other social principles of linguistic behaviour.
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(An indispensable store of information on the English lang...)
An indispensable store of information on the English language, written by some of the best-known grammarians in the world.
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Leech, Geoffrey Neil was born on January 16, 1936 in Gloucester, England. Son of Charles Richard and Dorothy Eileen (Foster) Leech.
Bachelor, University College London, 1959. Master of Arts, University College London, 1963. Doctor of Philosophy, University College London, 1968.
Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Lund (Sweden) University, 1987. Doctor of Philosophy, Lancaster University, England, 2002.
Assistant lecturer, U. College London, 1962-1964; lecturer, U. College London, 1965-1969; reader, Lancaster (England) University, 1969-1974; professor, Lancaster (England) University, 1974-1996; research professor, Lancaster (England) University, since 1997; co-director unit computer research English language, Lancaster (England) University, 1984-1995; chairman institute English language education, Lancaster (England) University, 1985-1990; chair university center corporations research language, Lancaster (England) University, since 1995. Honorary professor Beijing Foreign Studies U., since 1994.
(Over the years, pragmatics - the study of the use and mea...)
( "Stylistics" is the study of language in the service of...)
( "Stylistics" is the study of language in the service of...)
(In recent decades a revolution in linguistic thought has ...)
(In recent decades a revolution in linguistic thought has ...)
(An indispensable store of information on the English lang...)
Member Academy Europea, Norske Videnskaps Academy.
Married Frances Anne Berman, July 29, 1961. Children: Thomas, Camilla.