Find more information about: ISBN: 943 OCLC Number: 318171710 Description: xii, 383 p.: il.; 19 cm Contents: Meanings of meaning -- Seven types of meaning -- 'Bony-structured concepts' -- Semantics and society -- Is semantics scientific? -- Components and contrasts of meaning -- Componential analysis: extensions and problems -- The semantic strucutre of sentences -- Logic in everyday language -- Semantics and syntax -- Semantics and the dictionary -- Colour and kinship: two case studies in 'Universal semantics' -- Semantics equivalence and 'Deep semantics' -- Presuppositions -- Factuality -- Semantics and pragmatics -- Alternative theories. Responsibility: Geoffrey Leech.

Contents • • • • • • • • • • Life and career [ ] Leech was born in Gloucester, England on 16 January 1936. He was educated at Tewkesbury Grammar School, Gloucestershire, and at (UCL), where he was awarded a BA (1959) and PhD (1968).

Geoffrey Neil Leech FBA (16 January 1936 – 19 August 2014) was a specialist in English language and linguistics. He was the author, co-author or editor of over 30 books and over 120 published papers. For some, semantics concerns the study of meaning as communicated through language, while for some others, semantics studies all aspects of meaning and they have to add the label “linguistic” to arrive at a more precise definition. This distinction, however, is not generally given much importance.

He began his teaching career at UCL, where he was influenced by and as senior colleagues. He spent 1964-5 as a at the, Cambridge MA. In 1969 Leech moved to, UK, where he was Professor of English Linguistics from 1974 to 2001.

In 2002 he became Emeritus Professor in the Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University. He was a Fellow of the, an Honorary Fellow of UCL and of Lancaster University, a Member of the and the, and an honorary doctor of three universities, most recently of (2012). He died in Lancaster, England on 19 August 2014. Archived from on 3 August 2014. Retrieved 15 August 2014.

• Hardie, Andrew (20 August 2014). ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science. Retrieved 21 August 2014. Retrieved 15 August 2014. Johansson (2009), 'The coming of ICAME', ICAME Journal, 33, 5–20. Retrieved 15 August 2014.

Retrieved 15 August 2014. • Garside, R., G. McEnery (eds.) (1997), Corpus Annotation: Linguistic Information from Computer Text Corpora, London: Longman, pp. X + 281 • Sampson, G. (2003), 'Reflections of a dendrographer'. Rayson and T. McEnery (eds.) Corpus Linguistics by the Lune: A Festschrift for Geoffrey Leech, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, pp.

Smith (2009) Change in Contemporary English: A Grammatical Study. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp.

Leech (1969), A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry, London: Longman, pp.xiv + 240 • G. Short (1981), Style in Fiction: A Linguistic Introduction to English Fictional Prose, London: Longman, pp.

Xiv + 402 (2nd edition, 2007) •. Retrieved 15 August 2014. • van Peer W. Stylistics and Psychology: Investigations of Foregrounding. London: Croom Helm • Garvin, P.

And trans.) (1958) A Prague School Reader on Aesthetics, Literary Structure and Style. Washington: Georgetown University Press • Leech, G.

(2008) Language in Literature: Style and Foregrounding. Harlow, England: Pearson Longman, pp. Xii+222 • c.f. (1965) 'Internal and external deviation in poetry', Word 21, 225–237, on internal deviation • G. Pretty good solitaire torrent.

Leech (1974), Semantics, London: Penguin, pp.xii + 386 (2nd edition, entitled Semantics: the Study of Meaning, 1981) • G. Leech, (1983), Principles of Pragmatics, London: Longman, pp.xiv + 250 • Gu, Yueguo (1990) 'Politeness phenomena in modern Chinese'. Journal of Pragmatics, 3, 237–257. • Huang, Yan (2007) Pragmatics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• Leech, Geoffrey (2007) 'Politeness: Is there an East-West divide?' , Journal of Politeness Research, 3.2, 167–206.

• Spencer-Oatey (2005: 97) on absolute politeness. External links [ ] • • (PDF) • (PDF).