The completely redesigned Grammar of Spoken and Written English is a comprehensive corpus-based reference grammar. GSWE describes the structural characteristics of grammatical constructions in English, as do other reference grammars. But GSWE is uni...Daugiau...
This book has evolved from a Workshop on Computerized Speech Corpora, held at Lancaster University in 1993. It brings together the findings presented in a clear and coherent manner, focussing on the advantages and disadvantages of particular transcri...Daugiau...
Seeks to demonstrate that the study of English poetry is enriched by the insights of modern linguistic analysis, and that linguistic and critical disciplines are not separate but complementary. Examining a wide range of poetry, Professor Leech consid...Daugiau...
Word Frequencies in Written and Spoken English is a landmark volume in the development of vocabulary frequency studies. Whereas previous books have in general given frequency information about the written language only, t...Daugiau...
This is the fully revised and expanded second edition of English - One Tongue, Many Voices, a book by three internationally distinguished English language scholars who tell the fascinating, improbable saga of English in time and space. Chapters trace...Daugiau...
Corpus Annotation gives an up-to-date picture of this fascinating new area of research, and will provide essential reading for newcomers to the field as well as those already involved in corpus annotation. Early chapters introduce the differen...Daugiau...
This is the fully revised and expanded second edition of English - One Tongue, Many Voices, a book by three internationally distinguished English language scholars who tell the fascinating, improbable saga of English in time and space. Chapters trace...Daugiau...
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 b...Daugiau...
A Communicative Grammar of English has long been established as a grammar innovative in approach, reliable in coverage, and clear in its explanations. This fully revised and redesigned third edition provides up-to-date and accessible help...Daugiau...
"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 En...Daugiau...
Over a period of over forty years, Geoffrey Leech has made notable contributions to the field of literary stylistics, using the interplay between linguistic form and literary function as a key to the mystery of how a text comes to be invested with...Daugiau...
The chapters in this volume feature new and groundbreaking research carried out by leading scholars and promising young researchers from around the world on recent changes in the English verb phrase. This cutting-edge collection is essential reading...Daugiau...
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 concentrated in the area of the finite verb phrase: in particular, tense, aspect, mood and...Daugiau...
This readable book presents a new general theoretical understanding of politeness. It offers an account of a wide range of politeness phenomena in English, illustrated by hundreds of examples of actual language use taken largely from authentic Britis...Daugiau...
This readable book presents a new general theoretical understanding of politeness. It offers an account of a wide range of politeness phenomena in English, illustrated by hundreds of examples of actual language use taken largely from authentic Britis...Daugiau...
Bas Aarts, Joanne Close, Geoffrey Leech, Sean Wallis
Serija: Studies in English Language
(Išleidimo metai: 14-Feb-2013, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781107016354)
The chapters in this volume feature new and groundbreaking research carried out by leading scholars and promising young researchers from around the world on recent changes in the English verb phrase. Drawing on authentic corpus data, the papers cons...Daugiau...
Based on the systematic analysis of large amounts of computer-readable text, this book shows how the English language has been changing in the recent past, often in unexpected and previously undocumented ways. The study is based on a group of matchin...Daugiau...
The 30th anniversary of the conference and its sponsoring organization International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English, provided an opportunity to review the history of corpus linguistics and project its future as well as share recent f...Daugiau...
Geoffrey Leech, Marianne Hundt, Christian Mair, Nicholas Smith
Serija: Studies in English Language
(Išleidimo metai: 22-Oct-2009, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9780521867221)
An assessment of how English grammar is changing, and the linguistic and social factors that are contributing to this process. Based on the systematic analysis of large amounts of computer-readable text, this book shows how the English langua...Daugiau...
Over a period of more than forty years, Geoffrey Leech has made notable contributions to the field of literary stylistics, using the interplay between linguistic form and literary function as a key to the mystery of how a text comes to be invested...Daugiau...
Leech (emeritus linguistics and English language) and Short (English language and literature, both Lancaster U.) finally agreed to update their 1981 text for stylistic courses in English literature, which has remained in print and has been translated...Daugiau...
This readable textbook tells the fascinating story of the English language in three ways. It begins by tracing the history of the language from its obscure beginnings over 1500 years ago and follows up by showing the geographical sprea...Daugiau...
This readable textbook tells the fascinating story of the English language in three ways. It begins by tracing the history of the language from its obscure beginnings over 1500 years ago and follows up by showing the geographical sprea...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 19-May-2006, Hardback, Leidėjas: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9780748624065)
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Presents a range of terms used to describe the way the English language is structured. This is an alphabetic guide to common terms used in the description of the English language. It takes account of other variants of English grammar, including the...Daugiau...
From abstract noun to zero relative pronoun, Leech (emeritus, English Linguistics, Lancaster U.) offers definitions and explanations of the terminology of English grammar in this cross-referenced glossary. The selected terms have been taken from...Daugiau...
Since its publication in 1971, Meaning and the English Language has established itself as a standard textbook for studies in English Language. It deals with areas of the language that are of particular interest in themselves and which are...Daugiau...
A Communicative Grammar of English employs a communicative rather than a structural approach to the learning of English grammar. This edition is divided into three parts:Part One: A guide to the use of this book - looks at the way English grammar...Daugiau...
Examines patterns of use in the news, fiction and academic English Takes grammar and vocabulary together and looks at how they interact Is based on the analysis of 40-million words of British and American, written and spoken corpus text Uses over 30...Daugiau...
invaluable for students on university and teacher-training courses checks your knowledge of how English is actually used in speech and writing shows how grammar differs in different contexts of registers provides practice with relationships between g...Daugiau...
Word Frequencies in Written and Spoken English is a landmark volume in the development of vocabulary frequency studies. Whereas previous books have in general given frequency information about the written language only, t...Daugiau...
Corpus Annotation gives an up-to-date picture of this fascinating new area of research, and will provide essential reading for newcomers to the field as well as those already involved in corpus annotation. Early chapters introduce the differen...Daugiau...
This book has evolved from a Workshop on Computerized Speech Corpora, held at Lancaster University in 1993. It brings together the findings presented in a clear and coherent manner, focussing on the advantages and disadvantages of particular transcri...Daugiau...
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This book is about building computer programs that parse (analyze, or diagram) sentences of a real-world English. The English we are concerned with might be a corpus of everyday, naturally-occurring prose, such as the entire text of this mornings n...Daugiau...
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In recent decades a revolution in linguistic thought has restored semantics to a central position in the study of language. Geoffrey Leechs book is a study of the issues thus brought to the fore....Daugiau...
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This well-established standard textbook deals with areas of the English language which are well-known trouble spots for the foreign learner: tense, progressive and perfect aspects, mood and the modal auxiliaries....Daugiau...
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 b...Daugiau...
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English Grammar for Today seeks to promote the study of grammar in the English curriculum. It takes a new approach which gives weight not only to analytical skills but also to the integration of English grammar with other linguistic skills such as c...Daugiau...
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Describes the ways in which the techniques of linguistic analysis and literary criticism can be combined, and illuminated, through the linguistic study of literary style. It draws on the prose fiction of the last 150 years to demonstrate the ap...Daugiau...
The aim of this book is to show the way forward to a coherent view of language in which the achievement of the formalist paradigm is strengthened to the extent that its claims are weakened. A formal theory such as generative grammar is a special theo...Daugiau...
Seeks to demonstrate that the study of English poetry is enriched by the insights of modern linguistic analysis, and that linguistic and critical disciplines are not separate but complementary. Examining a wide range of poetry, Professor Leech consid...Daugiau...
