George Yule (linguist)

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

This article is about the Scottish-American linguist. For other persons of the same name, see George Yule.

George Yule
Born (1947-03-20) 20 March 1947
Known forWriting introductory books on linguistics
Academic background
EducationUniversity of Edinburgh (PhD)
ThesisAspects of the information structure of spoken discourse (1981)
Doctoral advisorGillian Brown
Other advisorsKeith Brown, Jim Miller, Karen Currie de Carvalho
Academic work
DisciplineLinguistics
Sub-disciplineDiscourse analysis, pragmatics
Institutions
  • University of Minnesota
  • Louisiana State University
  • University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
  • University of Edinburgh
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