G.Evans was regarded as one of the representative figures pioneering research on the determination of the reference of a proper name.He follows Kripke Causal Historical Reference Theory in emphasizing the social and historical factors in determining the reference of proper names.Moreover,he puts forward such new concepts as Producers and Consumers of proper names,Name-using Practice,etc..According to Evans,if an object X is regularly and consistently identified by the producers of the proper name NN as the reference of X,then X is the reference of NN.Evans’s theory provides a new solution to the determination of the reference of a proper name