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... 16 KB (1,985 words) - 22:14, 1 April 2024 |
Politeness maxims (redirect from Leech's maxims) According to Geoffrey Leech, there is a politeness principle with conversational maxims similar to those formulated by Paul Grice. He lists six maxims:... 5 KB (653 words) - 18:44, 1 April 2024 |
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... 3 KB (292 words) - 20:35, 24 November 2023 |
descriptive grammar of English written by Douglas Biber, Stig Johansson, Geoffrey Leech, Susan Conrad, and Edward Finegan, first published by Longman in 1999... 7 KB (744 words) - 08:32, 11 February 2024 |
Deo gratias, Latin phrase meaning "thanks [be] to God" God bless you Geoffrey Leech, The Pragmatics of Politeness (2014), p. 200. Grenville Kleiser, Training... 6 KB (769 words) - 15:46, 12 May 2024 |
discovered in the West, but in 1960 some British stylisticians, notably Geoffrey Leech and Roger Fowler, established the notion of 'foregrounding' in the linguistically... 10 KB (1,336 words) - 22:56, 3 January 2024 |
MacMillan and Company Ltd., p 78 " Quirk, Raymond, Sidney Greembaum, Geoffrey Leech and Jan Scartvik, 1985, A Comprehensive Grammar of Contemporary English... 44 KB (4,912 words) - 22:56, 21 April 2024 |
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... 665 bytes (113 words) - 15:01, 24 May 2022 |
Object (grammar) Subject (grammar) Randolph Quirk, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech, and Jan Svartvik, A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language (London:... 5 KB (476 words) - 06:03, 19 January 2024 |
produces the following analyses: Quirk, Raymond, Sidney Greembaum, Geoffrey Leech and Jan Svartvik, 1985, A Comprehensive Grammar of Contemporary English... 9 KB (854 words) - 06:07, 17 July 2023 |