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Author : Geoffrey N. Leech
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : English language
ISBN : OCLC:1435570766
Author : Geoffrey N. Leech
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015008793674
Author : Geoffrey N. Leech
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Semantics
ISBN : UCAL:B4928834
Geoffrey Leech stresses the contribution of semantics to the understanding of practical problems of communication and concept-manipulation in modern society.
Author : Geoffrey Neil Leech
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1050376264
Author : Geoffrey N. Leech
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317869481
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 in terms of communicative goals and principles of 'good communicative behaviour'. In this respect, Geoffrey Leech argues for a rapprochement between linguistics and the traditional discipline of rhetoric. He does not reject the Chomskvan revolution of linguistics, but rather maintains that the language system in the abstract - i.e. the 'grammar' broadly in Chomsky's sense - must be studied in relation to a fully developed theory of language use. There is therefore a division of labour between grammar and rhetoric, or (in the study of meaning) between semantics and pragmatics. The book's main focus is thus on the development of a model of pragmatics within an overall functional model of language. In this it builds on the speech avct theory of Austin and Searle, and the theory of conversational implicature of Grice, but at the same time enlarges pragmatics to include politeness, irony, phatic communion, and other social principles of linguistic behaviour.
Author : Roberta Facchinetti,Frank Palmer,Manfred Krug
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110895339
This book offers original theoretical accounts and a wealth of descriptive information concerning modality in present-day English. At the same time, it provides fresh impetus to more general linguistic issues such as grammaticalization, colloquialization, or the interplay between sociolinguistic and syntactic constraints. The articles fall into four sections: (a) the semantics and pragmatics of core modal verbs; (b) the status of emerging modal items; (c) stylistic variation and change; (d) sociolinguistic variation and syntactic models. The book is of considerable value to students and teachers of English and Linguistics at undergraduate and graduate level worldwide.
Author : Bas Aarts,Jill Bowie,Gergana Popova
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 854 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191071201
This handbook provides an authoritative, critical survey of current research and knowledge in the grammar of the English language. Following an introduction from the editors, the volume's expert contributors explore a range of core topics in English grammar, beginning with issues in grammar writing and methodology. Chapters in part II then examine the various theoretical approaches to grammar, such as cognitive, constructional, and generative approaches, followed by the chapters in part III, which comprehensively cover the different subdomains of grammar, including compounds, phrase structure, clause types, tense and aspect, and information structure. Part IV offers coverage of the relationship between grammar and other fields - lexis, phonology, meaning, and discourse - while the concluding part of the book investigates grammatical change over time, regional variation, and genre and literary variation. The handbook's wide-ranging coverage will appeal to researchers and students of English language and linguistics from undergraduate level upwards.
Author : Geoffrey Leech
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006-05-19
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780748626915
A Glossary of English Grammar presents a wide range of terms used to describe the way the English language is structured. Grammatical terms can be a problem for students, especially when there are alternative names for the same thing (for example, 'past tense' and 'preterite'). This book therefore provides a basic and accessible guide, focusing on the English language. Definitions of grammatical terms are given in simple language, with clear examples, many from authentic texts and spoken sources, showing how they are used. The terms used in the Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language are widely seen as standard, and form the basis of grammatical terminology in this book. At the same time, this glossary does not neglect other variants of English grammar, such as that of Huddleston and Pullum's influential Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, whose most important terms are also covered here. This book is indispensable for anyone wishing to understand present-day terminology of English grammar more fully.
Author : Geoffrey Leech
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317899938
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 brought together with four new chapters, the whole volume showing a continuity of approach across a period when all too often literary and linguistic studies have appeared to drift further apart. Leech sets the concept of ‘foregrounding’ (also known as defamiliarization) at the heart of the interplay between form and interpretation. Through practical and insightful examination of how poems, plays and prose works produce special meaning, he counteracts the ‘flight from the text’ that has characterized thinking about language and literature in the last thirty years, when the response of the reader, rather than the characteristics and meaning potential of the text itself, have been given undue prominence. The book provides an enlightening analysis of well-known (as well as less well-known) texts of great writers of the past, including Keats, Shelley, Samuel Johnson, Shaw, Dylan Thomas, and Virginia Woolf.
Author : Geoffrey N. Leech
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027225061
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 theory which is to be subsumed in a general theory of linguistic communication that also includes pragmatics. The tension between the psycho-formalist and the socio-functional views could be resolved in a synthesis whereby both the psychological and social natures of language are fully acknowledged. Semantics and pragmatics, representing these two natures in the study of meaning, have distinct goals, which can be defined more clearly and pursued more effectively to the extent that both their distinctness and their interdependence are recognized.
Author : Imran Ho-Abdullah
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Arc pair grammar
ISBN : 3034305826
Research into varieties of Englishes around the world has received much attention from scholars. This book offers a new perspective from a cognitive inter and intra lexemic analysis of prepositional variations in Malaysian English and contrasts them with similar prepositions in New Zealand and British English. Based on corpora data from the three varieties, the author provides usage types analysis of the prepositions at, in and on. The analysis exploits cognitive approaches to prepositional polysemy and gives a motivated account of prepositional variations across varieties. The book offers a wealth of corpus based linguistic data and explanation to our understanding of variations in prepositional usage in different varieties of English. The distributional frequencies of various usage types are provided to illustrate the variation.
Author : Jan M.G. Aarts,Joseph P. Calbert
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-20
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783111345994
Over the past few decades, the book series Linguistische Arbeiten [Linguistic Studies], comprising over 500 volumes, has made a significant contribution to the development of linguistic theory both in Germany and internationally. The series will continue to deliver new impulses for research and maintain the central insight of linguistics that progress can only be made in acquiring new knowledge about human languages both synchronically and diachronically by closely combining empirical and theoretical analyses. To this end, we invite submission of high-quality linguistic studies from all the central areas of general linguistics and the linguistics of individual languages which address topical questions, discuss new data and advance the development of linguistic theory.
Author : Robert Austerlitz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110857610
Author : M.A.K. Halliday,Ruqaiya Hasan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317869597
Cohesion in English is concerned with a relatively neglected part of the linguistic system: its resources for text construction, the range of meanings that are speciffically associated with relating what is being spoken or written to its semantic environment. A principal component of these resources is 'cohesion'. This book studies the cohesion that arises from semantic relations between sentences. Reference from one to the other, repetition of word meanings, the conjunctive force of but, so, then and the like are considered. Further, it describes a method for analysing and coding sentences, which is applied to specimen texts.
Author : Eugene A. Nida
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2002-11-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027297044
Contexts in Translating is designed to help translators understand the varieties of contexts and their importance for understanding a text and reproducing the meaning in another language. The contexts include the historical setting of writing a text, the cultural components that make a text unique, the types of audiences for which the translation is intended, and the most efficient and effective ways of producing a satisfactory representation of the source-language text. The structural levels of language are described, and the principal features of text organization are also explained. In addition, the main features of various books on translation are outlined, and a chapter on basic theories of translation is followed by a selective bibliography.
