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999
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192

Overview

Geoffrey Leech was affiliated with Lancaster University in the United Kingdom. Their research spanned multiple areas within the arts and humanities as well as the social sciences, focusing particularly on language and linguistics.

The main fields of study reflected in their work included:

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Social Sciences

Within these broader fields, Leech contributed to subfields such as:

  • Literature and Literary Theory
  • Language and Linguistics
  • Linguistics and Language

The primary topics covered in their research were:

  • Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
  • EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
  • Linguistic Variation and Morphology

Leech collaborated frequently with several scholars, including:

  • Douglas Biber
  • Stig Johansson
  • Susan Conrad
  • Edward Finegan

Their notable book publication was released through John Benjamins Publishing Company:

  • Grammar of Spoken and Written English (2020), cited 297 times

The body of work produced by Geoffrey Leech contributed to understanding language use in both spoken and written modes, engaging with areas relevant to applied linguistics and language teaching. Their focus on discourse analysis and linguistic variation also intersected with teaching English as a foreign or second language.

Best Publications

  • Principles of pragmatics

    Geoffrey Neil Leech

  • Grammar of Spoken and Written English

    Douglas Biber;Stig Johansson;Geoffrey N. Leech;Susan Conrad

  • A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language

    Rodney Huddleston;Randolph Quirk;Sidney Greenbaum;Geoffrey Leech

  • A Communicative Grammar of English

    Geoffrey N. Leech;Jan Lars Svartvik

  • A linguistic guide to English poetry

    Geoffrey N. Leech

  • Meaning and the English Verb

    Geoffrey N. Leech

  • English in advertising : a linguistic study of advertising in Great Britain

    Geoffrey N. Leech

  • Word Frequencies in Written and Spoken English: Based on the British National Corpus

    Geoffrey N. Leech;Paul Rayson;Andrew Wilson

  • The Pragmatics of Politeness

    Geoffrey N. Leech

  • Style in Fiction: A Linguistic Introduction to English Fictional Prose

    Geoffrey Neil Leech;Michael Henry Short

  • Change in Contemporary English: A Grammatical Study

    Geoffrey Leech;Marianne Hundt;Christian Mair;Nicholas Smith

  • Corpora and theories of linguistic performance

    Geoffrey Leech

  • The state of the art in corpus linguistics

    Geoffrey Leech

  • English Grammar for Today: A New Introduction

    Geoffrey N Leech;Margaret Deuchar;Robert Hoogenraad

  • Style in fiction

    Geoffrey N. Leech

  • Longman Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English

    Douglas Biber;Susan Conrad;Geoffrey N. Leech

  • Social differentiation in the use of English vocabulary: some analyses of the conversational component of the British National Corpus

    Paul Rayson;Geoffrey N. Leech;Mary Hodges

  • The Computational analysis of English : a corpus-based approach

    Roger Garside;Geoffrey N. Leech;Geoffrey Sampson

  • Manual of information to accompany the Lancaster-Oslo : Bergen Corpus of British English, for use with digital computers

    Johansson. Stig;Geoffrey N. Leech;Helen Goodluck

  • Change in Contemporary English: List of tables

    Unknown

  • Corpus Annotation: Linguistic Information from Computer Text Corpora

    Roger Garside;Geoffrey N. Leech;Anthony M. McEnery

  • Style in Fiction: A Linguistic Introduction to English Fictional Prose

    Michael Toolan;Geoffrey N. Leech;Michael N. Short

  • A Communicative Grammar of English

    Gabriel Decio;Geoffrey Leech;Jan Svartvik

Frequent Co-Authors

Douglas Biber
Douglas Biber Northern Arizona University
Brian Francis
Brian Francis Lancaster University
Stephen C. Levinson
Stephen C. Levinson Radboud University
Jonathan Culpeper
Jonathan Culpeper Lancaster University
Sylviane Granger
Sylviane Granger Université Catholique de Louvain

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