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Geoffrey Leech

Geoffrey Leech Quotes

Total quotes: 3

Geoffrey Leech

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Birthplace: Gloucester, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom

Death: August 20, 2014

Educated At: University College London

Nationality: United Kingdom

Occupations: Philologist, Linguist, University Teacher

Total quotes: 3

“Most conceptual categories in the human mind and in language are characterized by a core of clear cases, with a blurry periphery of unclear, borderline cases.”

— Geoffrey Leech, Language in Literature

Tagged: Good Ambiguity, Ambiguity, V Prop, Taxonomy, Limits of Categorization, Naming Things, Conceptual Blending

“Anacoluthon is a kind of grammatical mismatch, where a sentence begins with one pattern, and then switches to another pattern.”

— Geoffrey Leech, Language in Literature

Tagged: Wordplay, Linguistic Style, Anacoluthon

“From the formal point of view, we look at the three main coding levels of linguistic analysis: graphological/ phonological, lexigrammatical and semantic. From the functional point of view, we interpret each of the formal levels in terms of three functional tiers: constructing a text (textual function), conveying a representation of some reality (ideational function) and communicating a discourse (interpersonal function).”

— Geoffrey Leech, Language in Literature

Tagged: Linguistic Analysis, How To Read A Text, Encoding

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