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

invaluable for students on university and teacher-training courseschecks your knowledge of how En...

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

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

'Stylistics' is the study of language in the service of literary ends, and in Style in Fiction, G...

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

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

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...

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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

An assessment of how English grammar is changing, and the linguistic and social factors that are ...

An assessment of how English grammar is changing, and the linguistic and social factors that are ...

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

This volume features new and groundbreaking research on recent changes in the English verb phrase.

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...

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...

This volume features new and groundbreaking research on recent changes in the English verb phrase.

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...

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...

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

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

'Professor Leech has given us the first full-length textbook suitable for teaching the 'new styli...

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