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Instructors
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Hyo Sang Lee
Korean language program coordinator
Associate Professor, EALC
PhD, UCLA, March 1991
hyoslee@indiana.edu
Goodbody Hall 229
855-8721
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Research Interests
Korean language and linguistics
Comparative study of East Asian languages
Discourse-pragmatic and cognitive approaches
to grammar
As a functional linguist, I am interested in discourse-pragmatics, linguistic typology and language universals. I seek functional explanations on why languages are structured in the ways they are through the ways human beings communicate with each other. I take the view that our communicative needs and strategies shape grammar, and grammar is the fossilizaton or routinization of recurrent communicative habits and patterns.
Recently, grammaticalization is my main research area. Many grammatical constructions and forms are developed from lexical words mainly due to the creativity of the speakers, which stem mainly from two brands of motivation. One is the speakerís desire to strengthen expressive power. Abstract grammatical relations are expressed with lexical words with concrete meanings such as body parts, basic spatial and temporal concepts. The other is the need to regulate communicative transaction. Not only linguistic tools are limited to express everything the speakers want to express, but also the speakers have to convey their subjective attitudes and emotions. A creative use of a word or construction leads the communication participants to draw inference from what is said, and that usage becomes conventionalized to be associated with that particular linguistic form. Grammaticalization could take different paths, and its consequence is synchronic variation. The focus of my current research is to find a conceptual network among the different uses of a linguistic form and reconstruct the grammaticalization path.
As a Korean language instructor, I pursue active learning through contextualized instruction. Students are expected to learn from contextualized dialogues in class rather than the instructor explains the grammar from the outset. Recently I am intrigued by infinite number of possibilities of teaching and learning through web-based technology. Although I doubt that classroom interaction can entirely be removed from language teaching, current web and multimedia technology can enhance the learners' chance to be contacted with the target language in more interesting and contextualized way than textbooks. Anyone interested in seeing part of my efforts in this regard, visit http://www.indiana.edu/~korean/index.html.
Courses Recently Taught
- All levels of Korean language
- EALC E233, Survey of Korean Civilization
- EALC E305, Korean Language and Culture
- EALC E505, Structure of Korean
Publication & Research Highlights
Books and monographs
- 2005. (Co-authored with Sungdai Cho and Hye-Sook Wang). Integrated Korean: Advanced-Superior (Vol. 1 & 2). Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
- 2001. (Co-authored with Young-mee Yu Cho, Carol Schulz, Ho-Min Sohn, and Sung-Ock Sohn). Integrated Korean: Intermdiate (Vol. 1 & 2). Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
- 2000. (Co-authored with Young-mee Yu Cho, Carol Schulz, Ho-Min Sohn, and Sung-Ock Sohn) Integrated Korean: Beginning (Vol. 1 & 2). Korean Language Education and Research-Korea Foundation Textbooks in Korean language. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
- 1987. Discourse presupposition and the discourse function of the topic marker nun in Korean. Bloomington: Indiana University Linguistics Club.
Journal articles
Other published articles
- In progress. "Discourse-pragmatics of the Korean connective -nunte/(u)nte: a case of grammaticalization of figure-ground relation." Paper presented at "New Reflections on Grammaticalization 1," an international symposium, held on June 16-19, 1999, Potsdam, Germany.
- 2003. Grammaticalization and synchronic
variation: a unified account of the discourse-pragmatics of -na
in Korean. Japanese/Korean Linguistics 11, ed. by Patricia Clancy.
- 2002. The structure of noun-complementation
in Korean. Pathways into Korean language and culture: Essays in honor
of Young-Key Kim-Renaud, ed. by Sang-Oak Lee, Gregory K. Iverson, Sang-Cheol
Ahn, and Young-mee Yu Cho, 291-314. Seoul: Pagijong Press.
- 2002. "Grammaticalization, recategorization,
and lexicalization: with reference to the development of some adjectives
in Korean." Paper presented at "New Reflections on Grammaticalization
2," an international symposium, held on April 4-6, 2002, at University
of Amsterdam.
- 2000. Grammaticalization and a panchronic
view of grammar. 인지언어학 (Cognitive Linguistics), ed. By Keedong Lee. Seoul: Hankookmunhwasa
[In Korean]
- 2000. "Discourse-pragmatics of adversative
connectives: comparison among Korean, English, and Japanese," paper
presented at the 12th International Conference on Korean Linguistics,
July 13-15, 2000, Prague, Czech Republic.
- 1994. Discourse-pragmatic
functions of sentence-type suffixes in Korean. Theoretical issues in
Korean linguistics, ed. by Young-Key Kim-Renaud, 517-539. CSLI, Stanford
Linguistics Society.
- 1985. Causatives in Korean
and the binding hierarchy. CLS 21.2 (Papers from the Para session on
Causatives and Agentivity at the Twenty First Regional Meeting of Chicago
Linguistics Society), 138-153.
Review articles
- 2001. Review of Sohn (1999), the Korean Language, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Anthropological Linguistics 43.4.
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