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Yuhou Pang

Beijing Jiaotong University, China

 

Xiaolin Xie

Northeastern University, China

 

Abstract

Yan Huang was a world-renowned Chinese linguist who was educated in mainland China and went abroad after the Reform and Opening Up. Over the past three decades, he, as a leading pragmaticist, had relentlessly expounded the neo-Gricean theory, and his study of anaphor in particular had enormously enriched and expanded the classical Gricean theory. This paper mainly explores his intellectual career as a linguist and particularly a pragmaticist. His academic insights and reflections may shed light on the linguistic inquiries of language students, teachers and researchers, especially young scholars.

 

Keywords

Yan Huang, intellectual career, linguistic studies, pragmatics