George Yule

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

Life

George Yule was born in Stirling, Scotland in 1947, and became an American citizen in 2000. He now lives in Hawai‘i. He studied at Edinburgh University, 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, Louisiana State University and the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. 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