On April 20, Professor Huang Yan from Universityof Auckland Visited SFS and gave a lecture entitled “Lexical Cloning inEnglish: A Neo-Gricean Lexical Pragmatic Analysis”. The lecture was chaired byProfessor Li Zhanxi. Professor Huang Guowen, Dean of SFS, along with manyteachers and students, attended the lecture.

With large quantities of date, ProfessorHuang Yan introduced and explained lexical cloning to the audience. He pointedout that lexical cloning mainly existed in American English, Australian Englishand British English etc. He also indicated that the subjects of lexical cloningcould be verbs, nouns and adjectives etc. and that lexical cloning functioneddifferently in different contexts. He then analyzed the relation betweenGricean theories and lexical cloning.

(Reportby Qin Jianhua  Picture by Cen Haoxian)