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 ...

This readable book presents a new general theoretical understanding of politeness. It offers an account of a wide range of politeness phenomena in English, ...

Oct 22, 2009 ... Other editions - View all · Change in Contemporary English: A Grammatical Study · Geoffrey Leech,Marianne Hundt,Christian Mair,Nicholas Smith

Every language has its peculiar problems of meaning for the foreign learner. In the English language, some of the biggest yet most fascinating problems are ...

Semantics: The Study of Meaning · Other editions - View all · Bibliographic information. Title, Semantics: The ...

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A Communicative Grammar of English has long been established as a grammar innovative in approach, reliable in coverage, and clear in its explanations.

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A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry · Other editions - View all · Bibliographic information. Title, A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry

Using Corpora for Language Research: Studies in Honour of Geoffrey Leech ... Corpus linguistics is a relatively new subject in linguistics, whereby corpora of ...