Geoffrey Leech#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 957 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 1991 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Geoffrey Leech passed away August 19, 2015.
Positions Held
- Emeritus Professor of Linguistics and English Lasnguage, Lancater University, 2002-
- Research Professor of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University, 1996-2002
- Professor of Linguistics and Modern English Language, Lancaster University, 1974-96
- Reader in English Languge, Lancaster University 1969-74
- Assistant Lecturer, University College London 1963-69 (Lecturer from 1965)
- PhD London University (University College London) 1968
Fields of Scholarship
- Linguistics (English grammar, corpus linguistics, pragmatics, stylistics, semantics)
Honours and Awards
- Harkness Fellowship (held at MIT, USA 1964-5)
- Fellow of the British Academy (1987-)
- Hon. Doctorate (FilDr), University of Lund, Sweden (1987)
- Member of Academia Europaea (1989-)
- Fellow, University College London (1989-)
- Member, Norske Videnskaps-Akademi (1993-)
- Honorary Professor, Beijing Foreign Studies University (1994-)
- Honorary D. Litt., University of Wolverhampton (2002)
- D. Litt, Lancaster University (2002)
- Honorary Fellow, Lancaster University (2009-)
- Hon. PhD, Charles University, Prague (2012)
