Geoffrey N. Leech

Broschiertes Buch

The Pragmatics of Politeness

Beschreibung

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 actual language use taken largely from authentic British and American sources.

Autor

Geoffrey Leech is Emeritus Professor of English Linguistics at Lancaster University, where he has been a faculty member for over 40 years. He has published many books and articles in the fields of English grammar, stylistics, pragmatics, semantics, and corpus linguistics. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1987.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 619g
• ISBN-13: 9780195341355
• ISBN-10: 019534135X
• Artikelnr.: 40579674