Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: geoffrey leech

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  • PRINCIPLES OF PRAGMATICS
    GEOFFREY N. LEECH
    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 become more evident. This book presents a rhetorical model of pragmatics: that is, a model which studies linguistic communication i...

    $1,540.00

  • SPOKEN ENGLISH ON COMPUTER
    GEOFFREY LEECH / GREG MYERS / JENNY (ALL LECTURERS, DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS AND MODERN ENGLISH, LANC
    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 transcription or mark-up practice. ...

    $1,620.00

  • LANGUAGE IN LITERATURE
    GEOFFREY LEECH
    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 artistic potential. In this book, seven earlier papers and articles, read previously only by a restricted audience, have been brough...

    $1,120.00

  • A LINGUISTIC GUIDE TO ENGLISH POETRY
    GEOFFREY N. LEECH
    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 considers many aspects of poetic style, including the language of past and present, creative language, poetic licence, repetition, sound...

    $1,620.00

  • WORD FREQUENCIES IN WRITTEN AND SPOKEN ENGLISH
    GEOFFREY LEECH / PAUL RAYSON / ANDREW (ALL OF LANCASTER UNIVERSITY) WILSON
    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, this book provides information on both speech and writing. It not only gives information about the language as a whole, but also about the differences between s...

    $2,120.00

  • MEANING AND THE ENGLISH VERB
    GEOFFREY N. LEECH
    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 modality. Meaning and the English Verb describes these fields in detail for teachers and advanced students of English as a foreign or...

    $1,420.00

  • A COMMUNICATIVE GRAMMAR OF ENGLISH
    GEOFFREY LEECH / JAN SVARTVIK
    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 to teachers, advanced learners and undergraduate students of English. Part One looks at the way English grammar varies in different types of ...

    $1,420.00