“世界應用語言學名家自選集”收錄了世界知名應用語言學家的學術論文，是國內首套以國際著名應用語言學家為主線的自選集。
《利奇應用語言學自選集》（作者利奇）為其中一冊，書中凝聚了利奇教授四十餘年來教學與研究的心得，適合從事相關研究工作的人員參考閱讀。

“世界應用語言學名家自選集”收錄了世界知名應用語言學家的學術論文，是國內首套以國際著名應用語言學家為主線的自選集。入選文章多散見於國際學術期刊，且時間跨度很大，讀者不易尋得。自選集展示了各位名家在應用語言學方面的研究脈絡，彙集成叢書，是應用語言學研究不可多得的資料。本叢書讀者對像為英語教師、英語專業研究生、本科生等，可作為其從事科研、撰寫論文的參考文獻。
《利奇應用語言學自選集》（作者利奇）為其中一冊，為英國蘭卡斯特大學英語語言學教授利奇在應用語言學研究領域的論文精選，《利奇應用語言學自選集》凝聚了利奇教授四十餘年來教學與研究的心得，體現了他在該領域所作出的傑出貢獻。

Geoffrey Leech is Emeritus Professor of EnglishLinguistics at Lancaster University， where he hasbeen a faculty member for over 40 years. He haspublished many books and articles in the fields ofEnglish grammar， stylistics， pragmatics， semanticsand corpus linguistics. His research career dates from the 1960s， when he produced three books （English in Advertising， A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry，and Towards a Semantic Description of English）， and extends to the present time： his recent works include Language in Literature （2008） and （with Marianne Hundt， Christian Mair and Nicholas Smith） Change in Contemporary English： A Grammatical Study （2009）. Among his best-known books are Meaning and the English Verb （1971; 3rd ed. 2004）， （with Jan Svartvik） A Communicative Grammar of English （1975; 3rd ed. 2002）， Principles of Pragmatics （1983）， and （with Randolph Quirk， Sidney.Greenbaum and Jan Svartvik） A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language （1985）. In the 1970s， he was a pioneer in the development of computer corpus linguistics， creating with Stig Johansson and others the first available corpus of British English， the Lancaster-Oslo-Bergen Corpus.Later he led the Lancaster team as part of the BNC consortium that created the British National Corpus （1991-5）. He studied at MIT for a year in 1964-5，was awarded the distinction of Honorary Professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University in 1994， and has also held visiting positions in Australia， France，Japan， New Zealand and the USA. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1987.

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Geoffrey Neil Leech--An Academic Autobiography
Part Ⅰ stylistics：Language in Literature
Linguistics and the Figures of Rhetoric
Pragmatics，Discourse Analysis，Stylistics and“The Celebrated Letter”
Stylistics(Illustrated by all Analysis of Shelley'S Ode to the West Wind)
Part Ⅱ Semantics：The Study of Meaning
Seven Types of Meaning
Semantic Indeterminacy and the Modals
Part Ⅲ Pragmatics and Politeness
Grammar and Rhetoric within a Functional View ofLanguage
Grammar，Pragmatics，and Politeness
Politeness：Is There an East．West Divide?
Part Ⅳ Computers and Corpus Linguistics
General Introduction
Corpora and Theories ofLinguistic Performance
Corpus Annotation Schemes
Part Ⅴ English Grammar
Varieties of English Grammar：The State of the Art from the Grammarian'S pojnt ofView
A New Gray'S Anatomy of English Grammar
Recent Grammatical Change in English：Data， Description，Theory
Part Ⅵ Grammar，Lexis and English Language Teaching
Students'Grammar--Teachers'Grammar--Learners'Grammar
The Role of Frequency in ELT：New Corpus Evidence Brings a Re-appraisal
Part Ⅶ Grammar in Varieties of English
Disjunctive Grammar in British Television Advertising
Grammars of Spoken English：New Outcomes of Corpus-oriented Research
BibllographicaI References
List of Publications