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Geoffrey Leech's Pragmatics of Politeness (2014) manages to successfully evaluate the explanatory power of the theory of politeness and provide a robust framework that generates a better understanding of it. * Dr habil. Silvia Florea, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu *

Geoffrey Leech's Pragmatics of Politeness (2014) manages to successfully evaluate the explanatory power of the theory of politeness and provide a robust framework that generates a better understanding of it. Dr habil. Silvia Florea, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu

Geoffrey Leech's Pragmatics of Politeness (2014) manages to successfully evaluate the explanatory power of the theory of politeness and provide a robust framework that generates a better understanding of it. * Dr habil. Silvia Florea, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu * Leechs scholarly contribution is a rich addition to existing literature on the subject. The book is notable for the comprehensiveness with which the author conducts his exploration of the area and for providing guidance and pointers for further explorations. * Saw-Choo Teo (University of Sydney),Australian Review of Applied Linguistics *

Leech's scholarly contribution is a rich addition to existing literature on the subject. The book is notable for the comprehensiveness with which the author conducts his exploration of the area and for providing guidance and pointers for further explorations. -- Saw-Choo Teo (University of Sydney),Australian Review of Applied Linguistics

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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.

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