George Yule (born 20 March 1947) is a Scottish-American linguist. He is known for his works on

pragmatics In linguistics and related fields, pragmatics is the study of how context contributes to meaning. The field of study evaluates how human language is utilized in social interactions, as well as the relationship between the interpreter and the int ...

and

discourse analysis Discourse analysis (DA), or discourse studies, is an approach to the analysis of written, vocal, or sign language use, or any significant semiotic event. The objects of discourse Analysis ( discourse, writing, conversation, communicative event ...

Life

George Yule was born in

Stirling, Scotland Stirling (; sco, Stirlin; gd, Sruighlea ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, city in Central Belt, central Scotland, northeast of Glasgow and north-west of Edinburgh. The market town#Scotland, market town, surrounded by rich farmland, ...

in 1947, and became an American citizen in 2000. He now lives in

Hawai‘i Hawaii ( ; haw, Hawaii or ) is a state in the Western United States, located in the Pacific Ocean about from the U.S. mainland. It is the only U.S. state outside North America, the only state that is an archipelago, and the only state ...

. He studied at

Edinburgh University The University of Edinburgh ( sco, University o Edinburgh, gd, Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann; abbreviated as ''Edin.'' in post-nominals) is a public research university based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Granted a royal charter by King James VI in 1582 ...

, completing an M.A. in English Language and Literature (1969), M.Sc. in Applied Linguistics (1978), and a PhD in Linguistics (1981). In his early career, he taught English in Canada, Jamaica, Saudi Arabia and Scotland. After completing his doctorate, he taught linguistics and applied linguistics at the University of Edinburgh,

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Tw ...

Louisiana State University Louisiana State University (officially Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, commonly referred to as LSU) is a public land-grant research university in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The university was founded in 1860 nea ...

and the

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa The University of Hawaii at Mānoa (University of Hawaii—Mānoa, UH Mānoa, Hawai'i, or simply UH) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Manoa, Mānoa, a neighborhood in Honolulu, Hawaii. It ...

. His areas of specialization are Discourse Analysis (Brown and Yule, 1983a; Overstreet and Yule, 2021) and Pragmatics (Yule, 1979; 1996). He has also carried out research and published on task-based language teaching (Brown and Yule, 1983b; Brown, Anderson, Shillcock and Yule, 1984; Tarone and Yule, 1989; Yule, 1997) and English Grammar (Yule, 1998; 2006/2019). His best-known work is an introductory textbook about language (Yule, 1985/2020).

Selected publications

*Brown, G. and G. Yule (1983a) ''Discourse Analysis'' Cambridge University Press *Brown, G. and G. Yule (1983b) ''Teaching the Spoken Language'' Cambridge University Press *Brown, G., A. Anderson, R. Shillcock and G. Yule (1984) ''Teaching Talk: Strategies for Production and Assessment'' Cambridge University Press *Overstreet, M. and G. Yule (2021) ''General Extenders The Forms and Functions of a New Linguistic Category'' Cambridge University Press *Tarone, E. and G. Yule (1989) ''Focus on the Language Learner'' Oxford University Press *Yule, G. (1979) Pragmatically controlled anaphora ''Lingua'' 49: pages 127-35 *Yule, G. (1985/2020) '' The Study of Language'' (1st/8th editions) Cambridge University Press *Yule, G. (1996) ''Pragmatics'' Oxford University Press *Yule, G. (1997) ''Referential Communication Tasks'' Lawrence Erlbaum *Yule, G. (1998) ''Explaining English Grammar'' Oxford University Press *Yule, G. (2006/2019) ''Oxford Practice Grammar Advanced'' (1st/Revised editions) Oxford University Press

References

1947 births Living people Linguists from England Alumni of the University of Edinburgh University of Minnesota faculty Louisiana State University faculty University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa faculty Applied linguists Pragmaticists Linguists of English Academics of the University of Edinburgh {{UK-linguist-stub