Lesley Jeffries

Lesley Jeffries is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Huddersfield. She co-edits Babel: The Language Magazine, co-authored Stylistics (Cambridge University Press 2010) and Keywords in the Press (Bloomsbury 2017), and has published widely on textual meaning in politics and poetry. She is Chair of the University Council of General and Applied Linguistics.

Lesley Jeffries is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Huddersfield. She co-edits Babel: The Language Magazine, co-authored Stylistics (Cambridge University Press 2010) and Keywords in the Press (Bloomsbury 2017), and has published widely on textual meaning in politics and poetry. She is Chair of the University Council of General and Applied Linguistics. See less