Geoffrey Leech

37.7k citations
116 papers · 15.0k indexed · 8 hit papers · h-index 43

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Geoffrey Leech

106 papers receiving 11.8k citations

Hit Papers

Principles of Pragmatics 2016 · 980 citations
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Geoffrey Leech
Comparison fields: 5 of 140
  • Language and Linguistics 9.6k
  • Linguistics and Language 2.9k
  • Literature and Literary Theory 4.7k
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 3.6k
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology 2.8k
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The 25 scholars most cited alongside Geoffrey Leech, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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1 202080
2
Politeness: West and East
201421
3 20121
4
Style in Fiction: New Directions for Research
20071
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Style in fiction revisited : the beginning of Great Expectations.
20076
6 200636
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Current change in English syntax.
200612
8
Adding linguistic annotation.
200538
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An anatomy of politeness in communication.
20030
10
A student grammar of spoken and written English : workbook.
20022
11 20004
12
Using corpora for language research : studies in the honour of Geoffrey Leech
199631
13
Statistically-driven computer grammars of English : the IBM/LANCASTER approach
199347
14 199351
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100 Million Words of English:The British National Corpus (BNC)
1992135
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Studies in language and linguistics
198511
17 198086
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Studies in English linguistics for Randolph Quirk
1980118
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The Meanings of the Modals in British and American English.
19807
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English in advertising : a linguistic study of advertising in Great Britain
1966173

About Geoffrey Leech

Geoffrey Leech is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Linguistics and Language, Literature and Literary Theory, Artificial Intelligence and Communication, having authored 116 papers that have together received 15.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Lexicography and Language Studies (31 papers), Natural Language Processing Techniques (27 papers), Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (15 papers), Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity (12 papers), Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (11 papers), Linguistic Variation and Morphology (11 papers), Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (10 papers) and Second Language Acquisition and Learning (10 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Language and Linguistics (9.6k citations), Linguistics and Language (2.9k citations), Literature and Literary Theory (4.7k citations), Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (3.6k citations) and Developmental and Educational Psychology (2.8k citations). Geoffrey Leech has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, Ghana and Sweden. Frequent co-authors include Jan Svartvik, Sidney Greenbaum, Randolph Quirk, Susan Conrad, Douglas Biber, Stig Johansson, Edward Finegan, P Beauvais, Paul Rayson and M. H. Short. Their work appears in journals such as International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, Lingua, TESOL Quarterly, Journal of Pragmatics and Modern Language Journal.

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