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A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology

http://www.unizar.es/departamentos/filologia_inglesa/garciala/bibliography.html

by José Ángel García Landa

(University of Zaragoza, Spain)

Geoffrey N. Leech

(British linguist; t. U of Lancaster; grammarian, semanticist and lexicologist, theorist of stylistics, d. 2014 at 78)

Works

Leech, Geoffrey N. "Linguistics and Figures of Rhetoric." In Essays in Style and Language. Ed. Roger Fowler. London: Routledge, 1966. 135-56.

_____. "Figurative Language." In Leech, A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry. London: Longman, 1969. 147-83.

_____. A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry. London: Longman, 1969. 1988.

_____. "Metre." In The Language and Literature Reader. Ed. Ronald Carter and Peter Stockwell. Abingdon (UK) Routledge, 2008.*

_____. Towards a Semantic Description of English. London: Longman, 1969.

_____. "'This Bread I Break': Language in Interpretation." In Linguistics and Literary Style. Ed. D. C. Freeman. New York: Holt, 1970.

_____. Meaning and the English Verb. London: Longman, 1971.

_____. Semantics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1974. 2nd ed. 1981.

_____. "Metalanguage, Pragmatics and Performatives." In Semantics: Theory and Application. Ed. C. Rameh. Washington, DC: Georgetown UP, 1976. Rpt. in Leech, Explorations in Semantics and Pragmatics.

_____. "Language and Tact." Linguistic Agency Univ. of Trier, Series A., Paper no. 36. 1977. Rpt. in Leech, Explorations in Semantics and Pragmatics.

_____. "Natural Language as Metalanguage." Transactions of the Philosophical Society (1976-77): 1-31. Rpt. in Leech, Explorations in Semantics and Pragmatics.

_____. (Rev. of Sadock 1974 and Cole and Morgan 1975). Journal of Linguistics 13 (1977): 133-45.

_____. Explorations in Semantics and Pragmatics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1980.

_____. "Linguistics and the Figures of Rhetoric." In Essays in Style and Language. Ed. R. Fowler. London: Routledge, 1981. 135-56.

_____. "Pragmatics and Conversational Rhetoric." In Possibilities and Limitations of Pragmatics. Ed. H. Parret, M. Sbisà and J. Verschueren. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1981. 413-42.

_____. Principles of Pragmatics. London: Longman, 1983.*

_____. "Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis, Stylistics and 'The Celebrated Letter'." Prose Studies 6 (1983): 142-57.

_____. "Pragmatic Principles in Shaw's You Never Can Tell." In Language, Text and Context: Essays in Stylistics. Ed. Michael Toolan. London: Routledge, 1992. 259-78.

_____. "English Grammar in Conversation." 1998.

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Leech, G., Randolph Quirk, Sidney Greenbaum, and Jan Svartvik. A Grammar of Contemporary English. London: Longman, 1972. 1991.

_____. A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. London: Longman, 1985.* 1994.

Leech, Geoffrey, and Jan Svartvik. A Communicative Grammar of English. London: Longman, 1975. 1985.

_____. A Communicative Grammar of English. 2nd ed. Longman, 1994.

Leech, G. N., S. Johansson, and H. Goodluck, comp. Lancaster-Oslo/Bergen Corpus of British English. Oslo: U of Oslo, 1978.

Leech, G., and J. Coates. "Semantic Indeterminacy and the Modals." In Studies in English Linguistics. Ed. S. Greenbaum, G. Leech and J. Svartvik. London: Longman, 1980. 79-90.

Leech, Geoffrey N., and Michael H. Short. Style in Fiction: A Linguistic Introduction to English Fictional Prose. London: Longman, 1981.*

Leech, Geoffrey, Margaret Deuchar and Robert Hoogenraad. "What Grammar Is and Is Not." In Leech, Deuchar and Hoogenraad, English Grammar for Today. Houndmills: Macmillan, 1982. 1994. 3-22.*

_____. "Sentences and Their Parts." In Leech, Deuchar and Hoogenraad, English Grammar for Today. Houndmills: Macmillan, 1982. 1994. 23-40.*

_____. "Words."In Leech, Deuchar and Hoogenraad, English Grammar for Today. Houndmills: Macmillan, 1982. 1994. 41-56.*

_____. "Clauses." In Leech, Deuchar and Hoogenraad, English Grammar for Today. Houndmills: Macmillan, 1982. 1994. 75-92.*

_____. "Subordination and Coordination." In Leech, Deuchar and Hoogenraad, English Grammar for Today. Houndmills: Macmillan, 1982. 1994. 93-112.*

_____. "Basic and Derived Structures." In Leech, Deuchar and Hoogenraad, English Grammar for Today. Houndmills: Macmillan, 1982. 1994. 113-32.*

_____. "Discourse Analysis: Speech and Writing." In Leech, Deuchar and Hoogenraad, English Grammar for Today. Houndmills: Macmillan, 1982. 1994. 133-45.*

_____. "Discourse Analysis: Tenor and Domain." In Leech, Deuchar and Hoogenraad, English Grammar for Today. Houndmills: Macmillan, 1982. 1994. 145-57.*

_____. "Analysis of Literary Discourse." In Leech, Deuchar and Hoogenraad, English Grammar for Today. Houndmills: Macmillan, 1982. 1994. 158-70.*

_____. "Grammar and Problems of Usage." In Leech, Deuchar and Hoogenraad, English Grammar for Today. Houndmills: Macmillan, 1982. 1994. 171-83.*

_____. "Grammar and Composition." In Leech, Deuchar and Hoogenraad, English Grammar for Today. Houndmills: Macmillan, 1982. 1994. 184-98.*

_____. English Grammar for Today: A New Introduction. Houndmills: Macmillan / The English Association, 1982. Corrected rpt. 1982. Rev. 1984. Rpt. 1985 (2). 1986. 1987. 1989. 1990. 1991. 1993. 1994.*

Leech, Geoffrey, and Jenny Thomas. "Language, Meaning and Context: Pragmatics." In Encyclopedia of Language. Ed. N. E. Collinge. London: Routledge, 1988. 173-206.

Leech, Geoffrey, Lita Taylor, and Steven Fligelstone. "A Survey of English Machine-Readable Corpora." In English Computer Corpora: Selected Papers and Research Guide. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1991. 319-54.

Leech, G., R. Garside and T. Várasi. Manual of Information for the Lancaster Parsed Corpus. Lancaster: U of Lancaster, n.d.

Leech, G., Ezra Black and Roger Garside, eds. Statistically-Driven Computer Grammars of English. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1993.

Biber, D., S. Johansson, G. Leech, S. Conrad and E. Finegan. Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English. Harlow: Addison Wesley Longman, 1999.

Criticism

Núñez Pertejo, Paloma. "An Interview with Geoffrey Leech. Santiago de Compostela, June 9th 2006." Atlantis 29.1 (June 2007): 143-56.*

Verschueren, Jef. (Review article on Leech, Principles of Pragmatics, and Levinson, Pragmatics). Journal of Linguistics 21 (1985): 459-70.