George Yule. George Yule was born in Stirling, Scotland in 1947 and became a US citizen in 2000. He now lives in Hawaii. He studied at the University of Edinburgh, completing an MA in English Language and Literature (1969), M.Sc. in Applied Linguistics (1978), and Ph.D. in Linguistics (1981). He has worked as an English teacher in the UK, Canada, Jamaica and Saudi Arabia. He has also taught Applied Linguistics at the Universities of Edinburgh, Hawaii, Louisiana State, and Minnesota. He is the author of several books; in Spanish: Discourse analysis (along with G. Brown) and language.