Geoffrey N. Leech’s speech mood context theory is a theory of pragmatics that was developed by J.L. Austin and further developed by John Searle1. According to this theory, the context of the mood of speech can be divided into five aspects: (1) greeter and greeting, (2) context of speech, (3) purpose of speech, (4) speech as speech act, (5) speech as a product of verbal action2.
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Geoffrey N. Leech's speech mood context theory is a theory of pragmatics that studies linguistic communication in terms of communicative goals and principles of 'good communicative behaviour'. Leech argues for a rapprochement between linguistics and the traditional discipline of rhetoric. He takes a pragmatic approach to politeness, which is based on the controversial notion that politeness is communicative altruism. Leech's work on politeness introduced the widely-accepted distinction between pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic aspects of politeness. Leech's main academic interests were English grammar, corpus linguistics, stylistics, pragmatics, and semantics.
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