GEOFFREY LEECH

This readable book presents a new general theoretical understanding of politeness. It offers an account of a wide range of politeness phenomena in English, illustrated by hundreds of examples of actua

This readable book presents a new general theoretical understanding of politeness. It offers an account of a wide range of politeness phenomena in English, illustrated by hundreds of examples of actua

Based on the systematic analysis of large amounts of computer-readable text, this book shows how the English language has been changing in the recent past, often in unexpected and previously undocumented ways. The study is based on a group of matching corpora, known as the 'Brown family' of corpora, supplemented by a range of other corpus materials, both written and spoken, drawn mainly from the later twentieth century. Among the matters receiving particular attention are the influence of American English on British English, the role of the press, the 'colloquialization' of written English, and a wide range of grammatical topics, including the modal auxiliaries, progressive, subjunctive, passive, genitive and relative clauses. These subjects build an overall picture of how English grammar is changing, and the linguistic and social factors that are contributing to this process.

Based on the systematic analysis of large amounts of computer-readable text, this book shows how the English language has been changing in the recent past, often in unexpected and previously undocumented ways. The study is based on a group of matching corpora, known as the 'Brown family' of corpora, supplemented by a range of other corpus materials, both written and spoken, drawn mainly from the later twentieth century. Among the matters receiving particular attention are the influence of American English on British English, the role of the press, the 'colloquialization' of written English, and a wide range of grammatical topics, including the modal auxiliaries, progressive, subjunctive, passive, genitive and relative clauses. These subjects build an overall picture of how English grammar is changing, and the linguistic and social factors that are contributing to this process.

Over a period of more than forty years, Geoffrey Leech has made notable contributions to the field of literary stylistics, using the interplay between linguistic form and literary function as a key to

★暢銷逾30年，兼具實用與專業的口語英語經典 ★台師大教授兼《英文研究論文寫作》作者廖柏森、Podcast賓狗單字專文推薦 學英文10年，仍無法開口說出合宜的英文？ 讀寫沒問題，卻說不出如母語人士般流暢的英文？ 第一本專門為口語溝通打造的文法書 語言學大師透過深入淺出的完整說明，搭配大量例句 帶你用英文精準溝通 本書適合： 1. 想針對各種場合使用正確英文的人 2. 想用英文準確表達自己，並正確理

本書採用詞典格式，易查易用。 收錄六百多條相互參見 詞條，涵蓋英語文法 各項內容

★暢銷逾30年，兼具實用與專業的口語英語經典 ★台師大教授兼《英文研究論文寫作》作者廖柏森、Podcast賓狗單字專文推薦 學英文10年，仍無法開口說出合宜的英文？ 讀寫沒問題，卻說不出如母語人士般流暢的英文？ 第一本專門為口語溝通打造的文法書 語言學大師透過深入淺出的完整說明，搭配大量例句 帶你用英文精準溝通 本書適合： 1. 想針對各種場合使用正確英文的人 2. 想用英文準確表達自己，並正確理解英美母語人士的人 3. 想說出母語人士般精準流暢英文的人 特色1：實用語法建議搭配真實例句，大師級作者教你精準溝通 語言學家Geoffrey Leech鑽研英語文法逾40年，本書歷經三次修訂，內容與時俱進，即使放在今日依然實用。書中說明英語語法的細微差別如何影響溝通，並搭配選自朗文語料庫 (Longman corpus) 的真實情境例句，幫你精準使用英文。It’s quite warm. 和 It’s rather warm. 兩句意思相同，但所使用的副詞不同，要傳達的弦外之音便完全不同：前者是正向的，後者偏向負面不耐煩。 特色2：真正能幫助口語溝通的英語語法經典 市面上文法書大多針對考試條列規則，例句多半無法運用在生活中，與實際溝通遙不可及。但文法的本質從發音、用字、句子到語調層面，皆與傳遞訊息與情感的實際溝通息息相關。在問句使用any 或some，可以暗示甚至左右對方說出自己想要的答案。比起疑問句，使用語調上揚的直述句更能加強語氣，或凸顯與對方的親切感 (但也比較不禮貌！)。 特色3：完整說明書面/口語英語差異，點出口語英文才有的語法特點 英語有各種變體，如美式/英式，正式/非正式，書面/口語英語等，跟書面英語比起來，口語對話顯得隨興沒有系統，但實際上，口語英語也有自己的語法特點。many與 a lot意思相同，但前者較正式，而a lot常見於非正式英語；縮寫形式是較不正式的英文；分詞構句是正式英語的常見句型；省略關係代名詞who其實較常見於不正式用法。本書是第一本系統化探討這些英語變體之間差異的書，幫助你根據不同情境場合，說出精準合宜的英語。 特色4：照顧學習者需求，系統化索引建立完整觀念 全書內容分成747個學習重點，透過即時索引，讀者能立即翻找到相關概念，建立完整語法系統，後方也提供完整索引隨時查找。 ★各界推薦（以姓名筆畫排序）★ 黃玟君｜台灣

A Communicative Grammar of English has long been established as a grammar innovative in approach, reliable in coverage, and clear in its explanations. This fully revised and redesigned third edition p

小說文體論：英語小說的語言學入門（第二版）

本書採用詞典格式，易查易用。 收錄六百多條相互參見 詞條，涵蓋英語文法 各項內容： 釋義淺顯易懂，輔以取自現實生活 例證、圖表和插圖，活學活用。 對語體、語調和英美詞語 用法，提供實用指導。

This is the fully revised and expanded second edition of English - One Tongue, Many Voices, a book by three internationally distinguished English language scholars who tell the fascinating, improbable

This is the fully revised and expanded second edition of English - One Tongue, Many Voices, a book by three internationally distinguished English language scholars who tell the fascinating, improbable

Leech (emeritus linguistics and English language) and Short (English language and literature, both Lancaster U.) finally agreed to update their 1981 text for stylistic courses in English literature, w