作者简介 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.
目录 序 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” Stylistics(Illustrated by all Analysis of ShelleyS 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 GrammarianS pojnt ofView A New GrayS Anatomy of English Grammar Recent Grammatical Change in English:Data, Description,Theory Part Ⅵ Grammar,Lexis and English Language Teaching StudentsGrammar--TeachersGrammar--LearnersGrammar 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
以下为对购买帮助不大的评价