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...

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

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

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

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

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

In print for over 30 years, Meaning and the English Verb is an established and recognised authori...

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

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