Geoffrey Neil Leech FBA (16 January 1936 – 19 August 2014) was a specialist in English language and linguistics. He was the author, co-author, or editor...

According to Geoffrey Leech, there is a politeness principle with conversational maxims similar to those formulated by Paul Grice. He lists six maxims:...

descriptive grammar of English written by Randolph Quirk, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech, and Jan Svartvik. It was first published by Longman in 1985. In 1991...

descriptive grammar of English written by Douglas Biber, Stig Johansson, Geoffrey Leech, Susan Conrad, and Edward Finegan, first published by Longman in 1999...

swimmer Fred Leech (1923–2001), English footballer Geoffrey Leech (1936–2014), specialist in English language and linguistics George L. Leech (1890–1985)...

Deo gratias, Latin phrase meaning "thanks [be] to God" God bless you Geoffrey Leech, The Pragmatics of Politeness (2014), p. 200. Grenville Kleiser, Training...

discovered in the West, but in 1960 some British stylisticians, notably Geoffrey Leech and Roger Fowler, established the notion of 'foregrounding' in the linguistically...

MacMillan and Company Ltd., p 78 " Quirk, Raymond, Sidney Greembaum, Geoffrey Leech and Jan Scartvik, 1985, A Comprehensive Grammar of Contemporary English...

book), book by John I. Saeed Semantics: the Study of Meaning, book by Geoffrey Leech This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Semantics...

University Press, 1997), p. 359. Randolph Quirk, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech, and Jan Svartvik, A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language (London:...