Every language has its peculiar problems of meaning for the foreign learner. In the English langu...

Based on the insights and discoveries of the ground-breaking Longman Grammar of Spoken and Writte...

A Communicative Grammar of English has long been established as a grammar innovative in approach,...

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This readable book presents a new general theoretical understanding of politeness. It offers an a...

Every language has its peculiar problems of meaning for the foreign learner. In the English langu...

This book has evolved from a Workshop on Computerized Speech Corpora, held at Lancaster Universit...

Over a period of over forty years, Geoffrey Leech has made notable contributions to the field of ...

Based on the systematic analysis of large amounts of computer-readable text, this book shows how ...

A Communicative Grammar of English has long been established as a grammar innovative in approach,...

Seeks to demonstrate that the study of English poetry is enriched by the insights of modern lingu...

Written by a team led by a world authority in English grammar, English Grammar for Today has esta...

Based on the systematic analysis of large amounts of computer-readable text, this book shows how ...

This is the fully revised and expanded second edition of English - One Tongue, Many Voices, a boo...

Over a period of more than forty years, Geoffrey Leech has made notable contributions to the fiel...

The chapters in this volume feature new and groundbreaking research carried out by leading schola...

Over the years, pragmatics - the study of the use and meaning of utterances to their situations -...

Winner of the 25th Anniversary Prize by PALA (The Poetics and Linguistics Association) as the mos...

This is the fully revised and expanded second edition of English - One Tongue, Many Voices, a boo...

Corpus Annotation gives an up-to-date picture of this fascinating new area of research, and will ...

This is the fully revised and expanded second edition of English - One Tongue, Many Voices, a boo...

Word Frequencies in Written and Spoken English is a landmark volume in the development of vocabul...

The chapters in this volume feature new and groundbreaking research carried out by leading schola...

This book presents a rhetorical model of pragmatics: that is, a model which studies linguistic co...

Books of English word frequencies have in the past suffered from severe limitations of sample siz...

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This is the first book to survey the growing field of research known as corpus annotation. The co...

This is the fully revised and expanded second edition of English - One Tongue, Many Voices, a boo...

This alphabetical guide clearly defines standard grammatical terms and shows how they are used, e...

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