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Language in Literature

Over a period of over 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 the ‘mystery’ of how a text comes to be invested with ar

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

— Geoffrey Leech, amazon.com

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 functio…”

— Geoffrey Leech, amazon.com

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

“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, amazon.com

Tagged: Good Ambiguity, Ambiguity, V Prop, Taxonomy, Limits of Categorization