Geoffrey Leech

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 saga of English in time and space. Meer

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. Meer

This is the first book to survey the growing field of research known as corpus annotation. The computer corpus has become a central resource in the study of language, and it is increasingly seen as essential to annotate a corpus linguistically in order to successfully extract information from it. Meer

Books of English word frequencies have in the past suffered from severe limitations of sample size and breadth. They have also tended to be restricted to word forms alone. Meer