Yingying Wang is a professor in the College of Foreign Languages at Hunan University. Before joining Hunan University, she taught in the philosophy department at Sun Yat-sen University and worked as a research fellow in linguistics at City University of Hong Kong. She holds a Ph.D. from Sun Yat-sen University. She has published academic papers in journals such as Language, Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, Journal of Semantics, and Lingua. Her primary research interests lie in semantics and pragmatics.