Geoffrey Leech

Geoffrey Leech ( born January 16, 1936), is a philologist, linguist and philologist. He was from 1974 to 2002 Professor of Linguistics and Modern English Language at Lancaster University. Thereafter he devoted himself to the study of the English language. Since 2002 he is professor emeritus of linguistics at the University of Lancaster.

Life and work

Main interest

Primarily, Leech involved in the semantics, pragmatics, stylistics, corpus analysis and the analysis of the English language through the use of computers. After a break of 20 years he has been researching now again active in the field of pragmatics. According to him, there is a politeness principle with conversational maxims similar to those that Paul Grice has formulated. Since the year 2005, in which he won 25 ( PALA = Poetic and Linguistic Association) award for her book Style and Fiction ( Longman, 1981) with his colleague Mick Short to PALA, he again began to work more with the Stylistics. A few years ago, in 2007, the two authors brought out a second edition of Style and Fiction.

Career and academic degrees

Leech studied 1955-1968 at UCL (University College London ), where he was a lecturer from 1962 to 1965 and from 1965 to 1969 professor of English at the same employed. At UCL, he completed the following degrees: BA (1959), M.A. (1963 ), Ph.D. (1968). In addition, Leech received the following degrees: Fil.Dr. ( Honorary doctorate ), Lund University (1987 ), Hon.D.Litt. , University of Wolverhampton (2002), D.Litt. , University of Lancaster ( 2002). In 1969 Leech joined the University of Lancaster to there until 1974 as a Lector from 1974 to 1996 as Professor of Linguistics and Modern English Language to be hired. From the year 1996 he was concerned, still active on behalf of the University of Lancaster, as a Research Professor in English Linguistics with the exploration of the English language. Since 2002, Leech is a professor emeritus of English linguistics.

Memberships

Geoffrey Leech is also a member of numerous organizations:

  • The British Academy (since 1987)
  • The Academia Europaea (since 1989)
  • UCL (since 1989)
  • Norske Videnskaps - Akademi (since 1993)
  • Hon Professor of Beijing Foreign Studies University (since 1994)

Publications

Geoffrey Leech wrote, was a co-author or co- editor of 29 books and more than 100 articles, including he wrote in A Grammar of Contemporary English by Quirk and Greenbaum. Some listed items:

  • English in Advertising: A Linguistic Study of Advertising in Great Britain (1966 )
  • A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry (1969 )
  • Meaning and the English Verb (1971, 2nd edition 1987, 3rd edition 2004 )
  • Semantics (1974, 2nd edition 1981)
  • A Communicative Grammar of English ( with J. Svartvik ) (1975, 2nd edition 1994, 3rd edition 2002 )
  • Style in Fiction: A Linguistic Introduction to English Fictional Prose ( with M. Short) ( 1981, 2nd edition 2007 )
  • Principles of Pragmatics (1983 )
  • A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language ( with R. Quirk, S. Greenbaum and J. Svartvik ) ( 1985)
  • Spoken English on Computer: Transcription, Mark -up and Application ( with G. Myers and J. Thomas ) ( 1995)
  • Corpus Annotation: Linguistic Information from Computer Text Corpora ( with R. Garside and T. McEnery ) (1997 )
  • Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English ( with D. Biber, S. Johansson, S. Conrad and E. Finegan ) (1999 )
  • An AZ of English Grammar and Usage ( with B. Cruickshank and R. Ivanic ) (2001 )
  • Word Frequencies in Written and Spoken English: based on the British National Corpus (with P. Rayson and A. Wilson ) (2001 )
  • Longman Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English ( with D. Biber and S. Conrad ) (2002 )
  • A Glossary of English Grammar (2006)
  • English - One Tongue, Many Voices ( with J. Svartvik ) (2006 )
  • Language in Literature: Style and foregrounding (2008)
  • Change in Contemporary English: A Grammatical Study ( with M. Hundt, C. Mair and N.Smith ) (2009 )
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