Associate Professor Duck-Young Lee
BA (Koog-Jey), Grad Dip (Tokyo Uni of ForStu), MA (Tsukuba), PhD (ANU)
Associate Professor, School of Culture, History & Language
ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
Areas of expertise
- Applied Linguistics And Educational Linguistics 200401
- Discourse And Pragmatics 200403
- Japanese Language 200312
- Korean Language 200316
Research interests
- Japanese-Korean linguistics
- Spoken discourse
- Unique features of Japanese spoken conversation
- Japanese education
Biography
Career highlights
- Associate Professor, ANU, since 2013.
- Senior tutor/Lecturer/Senior lecturer, ANU, 1991-2012.
- Visiting Researcher, Gakushuin University (Dec 1999 - June 2000) on Japan Foundation Fellowship.
- Visiting Researcher, Yokohama National University (Sep 2009 - Jan 2010) on Heiwa Nakajima Foundation Research Fellowship.
Current positions
- Convenor of Japanese program
- Executive board member, ANU Japan Institute
- Convenor of Japanese linguistics major
Services for academic community
- Section editor, Open Linguistics (De Gruyter, since 2014)
- Editorial board member, Journal of Japanese Language (Seoul, since 2007)
- Editorial board member, e-Journal of Asian Linguistics & Language Teaching (2001-2008)
- Co-convenor, ANU Language Teaching Forum (since 2014)
- Executive board member of the Korean Association of Japanese Linguistics (2005-present).
- Convenor, Communication, Education and Language Stream, Biennial Conference of Japanese Studies Association of Australia (2013).
- Convenor, Communication, Language and Linguistics Stream, Biennial Conference of Japanese Studies Association of Australia (2007).
- Convenor, Japanese Program, Asia-Pacific Week, ANU (2005, 2006, 2007).
- ACT Japanese Accreditation Panel member (1999-2007).
- Founder and Councilor of ACT Korean community school (2001-present)
- Chair of the judge panel for ACT Korean speech contest (2006, 2011)
Teaching awards
- College Award for Excellence in Teaching Language College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU (2008)
- College Award for Excellence in Teaching, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU (2012)
- ANU Commendation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning (2009 and 2013)
Researcher's projects
I was awarded my BA from Korea (Koog-Jey), MA from Japan (Tsukuba) and PhD from Australia (ANU). My publications have also been written in Korean, Japanese and English, and published in Korea, Japan as well as by international publishers, depending on the aim of the work and expected main readers.
My previous projects include:
- Government phonology
- Particle omission and subject omission in Japanese.
- Pragmatic effects of quotation markers in Korean
- Interactive modality
- Contrastive studies between Japanese and Korean: tense and aspects,
- Syllabus development for Japanese elementary courses: Enhancing spoken-ness
- Japanese studies in Korea
I am currently working on two long-term projects.
- Interface between language and culture: Japanese and Korean: Based on a large corpus of TV dramas (Japanese original dramas and their Korean remade versions), this project explores the use of Japanese and Korean in the social context, through which it ultimately aims to characterise the Japanese and Korean culture in light of the influence of the various socio-cultural factors. I am currently focusing on two book projects "Directive strategies in Japanese and Korean" (commands, requests, suggestions, etc) (with Dr Naomi Ogi) and "Person reference terms in Japanese and Korean" (person pronouns, kinship terms, names, etc).
- Syllabus/material development for Japanese elementary courses: It aims at developing a holistic approach which allows beginning learners of the Japanese language to master functional/situational expressions as well as grammar. As part of this project, I developed a syllabus that enhanced the students' learning of the communication skills and the spoken-ness at the beginners level. Based on the syllabus, I further wrote and published a textbook that is currently being used in my first-year Japanese language courses. I am now developing an e-textbook on the ANU eText Grant Scheme, in order to offer new flexible courses that target elective students inside and outside the ANU (public sector in particular).
Current student projects
[As a chair]
- "A study of discourse structure: In the case of wa and ga in Japanese". Haruka Woods, PhD program, 2016-present.
- "A study of quotation markers in conversation: Korean -nikka/-nunday and Japanese -tte". Hyunsu Kim, PhD program, 2015-present.
- "A study of reference terms in Japanese: with special focus on Anata". Yoko Yonezawa, PhD program, 2012-present.
- "The overt use of 1st and 2nd person references in Korean". Narah Lee, PhD program, 2012-present.
[As a second supervisor]
- "A study of evidentiality in Korean". Yunseok Lee, PhD program (CASS), 2014-present.
[As an advisor]
- "Textbook review: English textbooks taught in China". Xiaofei Tang, PhD program, 2012-present.
Past student projects
I have supervised as a chair more than 20 PhD, MA and Honours students. Below are some topics my previous research students undertook:
- Acquisition of Japanese request and refusal by Australian students
- Interactional functions of the -te form in Japanese
- A study of teachers' awareness of teaching culture: In the case of Japanese beginners' class in Australia
- Involvment and attitudes in spoken discourse: So-called sentence-final particles in Japanese
- A study of back channel in Japanese
- Discourse modality indicators in Japanese and Korean
- Conversational organisation in spoken Japanese
- Evidentiality in Japanese
- A contrastive study of aspect in Japanese and English
- Overt expression of 1st and 2nd person subjects
- Phonological aspects of Japanese loan words
- A study of transitive verbs in Japanese
- An analysis of causative in Korean
- A contrastive study of Japanese-English demonstratives
- The function of kedo in spoken Japanese
- A study of Japanese particles kara and node
- The Japanese focus particles sae, made and mo
- The nature of the back-channel behaviour in Japanese
- Lexical structure of Japanese visual verbs
- Syntactic description of Japanese verbal phrases
- The function of -ne in Japanese and its equivalents in Korean
Publications
- Lee, D & Ogi, N 2017, 'Directive strategies in modern Korean and Japanese: With special reference to commands and requests', in Daniel Van Olmen, Simone Heinold (ed.), Imperatives and Directive Strategies, John Benjamins Publishing Company, America, pp. 1-25.
- Lee, D 2017, 'Japanese Studies in South Korea', in Kaori Ono and Yoshio Sugimoto (ed.), Rethinking Japanese Studies, Routledge, Oxon, New York, pp. 99-117pp.
- Lee, D 2016, 'Contrastive studies: past, present and future', Journal of Japanese Language, vol. 47, pp. 91-103.
- Ogi, N & Lee, D 2016, Modern Japanese Online, ANU Press, Canberra, Australia.
- Lee, D 2015, 'Current trends in contrastive study', Keynote speaker, 32th General Meeting of the Japanese Language Association of Korea (JLAK), ed. Japanese Language Association of Korea, Japanese Language Association of Korea, n/a, pp. 1-7.
- Lee, D, Ogi, N, Lee, N, & Yonezawa. Y. 2015, 'On the characteristic of personal reference terms in Korean: A comparison with Japanese based on TV dramas', 9th Korean Studies Association of Australia (KSAA) Biennial Conference 2015, ed. 9th Biennial KSAA Organising Committee 2015, Korean Studies Association of Australia (KSAA) and 9th Biennial KSAA Conference Adelaide, Australia, Adelaide, Australia, pp. 178-190.
- Lee, D & Ogi, N 2014, 'Development of Japanese elementary curriculum that emphasises spoken-ness', The 18th of Biennial Conference of the Japanese Studies Association of Australia, ed. Duck Young Lee, Japanese Studies Association of Australia, Canberra, pp. 1-10.
- Lee, D 2014, 'Interpersonal relationship and language use: Focusing on directive expressions', 30th General Meeting of the JLAK, Japanese Languages and Literature Association of Korea, n/a, pp. 54-60.
- Lee, D 2014, 'Interface between culture and language: On directive conversations in Korean and Japanese', Journal of Japanese Language, vol. 42, no. December, pp. 193-206.
- Lee, D, ed., 2014, Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the Japanese Studies Association of Australia: Peer-reviewed full papers, Japanese Studies Association of Australia, Canberra.
- Lee, D & Ogi, N 2013, 'English as a Lingua Franca: A Case of Japanese Courses in Australia', in Hartmut Haberland, Dorte Lonsmann and Bent Preisler (ed.), Language Alternation, Language Choice and Language Encounter in International Tertiary Education, Springer Science + Business Media, Dordrecht, pp. 125-142.
- Ogi, N & Lee, D 2013, 'Gender and the Sentence-final Particles in Japanese', in Yousif Elhindi and Theresa McGarry (ed.), Gender-linked Variation across Languages, Common Ground Publishing, Champaign, Illinois, USA, pp. 50-85.
- Lee, D 2013, 'Learning strategies for natural Japanese conversation', in S-Y Kim (ed.), Approaches to Learning Japanese: 50 Methods Recommended by Japanese Professors, Chaeg Sarang, Seoul, pp. 67-70.
- Lee, D 2012, 'Approaches to Spoken Discourse', in S-Y Kim (ed.), Current Trends of Japanese Linguistics 2012, Chaeg Sarang, Seoul, South Korea, pp. 131-143.
- Lee, D 2011, 'Interface between cognition and interaction: In the case of Japanese', Journal of International Studies (Gukjehak non chong), vol. 16, pp. 125-154.
- Lee, D 2010, 'Japanese education in the multicultural-multilingual society of Australia', Journal of the International Student Centre, Yokohama National University, vol. 17, pp. 3-26.
- Lee, D, N. Ogi, M. Toma, Y. Yonezawa 2010, Nihongo-ga-Ippai, Hituzi Syobo, Japan.
- Lee, D. 2010, 'Emotion and grammar in spoken Japanese', Proceedings of 2010 International Conference of Japanese Language and Literature, pp. 187-191. Korean Association of Japanese Language and Literature.
- Lee, D & Yonezawa, Y 2008, 'The role of the overt expression of first and second person subject in Japanese', Journal of Pragmatics, vol. 40, pp. 733-767.
- Lee, D 2007, 'Involvement and the Japanese interactive particles ne and yo', Journal of Pragmatics, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 363-388.
- Lee, D 2004, 'Japanese Education in the Australian Context', Proceedings of Biennial Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia 2004, ed. Robert Cribb, ANU (coombs.anu.edu.au/ASAA/conference/proceedings/asaa-2004-proceedings.html).
- Lee, D 2003, 'Past and future of Japanese Education in Australia', Journal of Japanese Language and Literature, 45, pp. 9-25.
- Lee, D 2002, 'The function of the zero particle with special reference to spoken Japanese', Journal of Pragmatics, vol. 34, pp. 645-682.
- Lee, D & Yoshida, A 2002, 'A study of nda-kedo in spoken Japanese', Sekai no Nihong Kyoiku (Journal of the Language Institute of the Japan Foundation) (In Japanese), vol. 12, pp. 223-237.
- Lee, D. 2002, 'Japanese education in Australia', Proceedings of 2002 International Symposium of Japanese Studies, pp. 39-43.
- Lee, D. 2001, 'The function of the zero particle in spoken Japanese', Proceedings of the 64th International Forum of Japanese Language Education, pp. 86-91.
- Lee, D. 2001, 'Grammatical meaning of the zero particle in spoken Japanese', Working papers of the Language Institute of Gakushuin University 24, pp. 3-14. Gakushuin University.
- Lee, D. & Chiharu, M. 1999, 'A study of Japanese back channels', Issues in Teaching and Learning Japanese, Special Volume: 77-92. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics.
- Lee, D. 1988, Korean Phonology: A Principle-based Approach, Lincom Asian Linguistic Series Vol. 12. München, Newcastle: Lincom Europa.
- Lee, D. 1998, 'Spreading properties of the vocalic elements in Korean', in S-O Lee & D-S Park (eds.) Perspectives on Korean, pp. 442-460. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
- Lee, D. 1998, 'The syllable structure of consonant clusters in Korean', in B-S Park & J. Yoon (eds.) Selected papers from the 11th International Conference on Korean Linguistics, pp. 239-248. Hankuk Press: Seoul.
- Lee, D-Y & Yoshida, Y. 1998, 'A-head alignment in Korean', in E. Cyran (ed.) Structure and Interpretation: Studies in Phonology, pp. 195-204. Lublin: Folium.
- Lee, D. et al. 1996, 'Curriculum development for introductory course in spoken Japanese', Sekai no Nihongo ('Journal of the Language Institute of the Japan Foundation) 4, pp. 189-203.
- Lee, D. 1996, 'Vowel harmony in Korean', Proceedings of 3rd Government Phonology Workshop, University of Vienna. (Electronic publication: http://www.ling. univie.ac.at/gp/GP96.HTM)
- Lee, D. 1994, 'Korean vowel harmony: from the perspective of element theory', Hangeul (Journal of Korean Language Society) 223, pp. 157-199.
- Lee, D. & Hirakawa, Y. 1990, 'A contrastive study of Japanese and Korean aspectual expressions: /-te iru/ vs. /ko itta/ /o itta/', Working Papers of Nagaoka University of Technology 2, pp. 1-14. Nagaoka University of Technology.
- Lee, D, 1990, 'A contrastive study of aspect in Japanese and Korean', Nihongo Kyoiku (Journal of Teaching Japanese) 72, pp.53-67
