Hamilton Lugar School
of Global and International Studies

Phone:

(812) 855-8721

Email:

hyoslee@indiana.edu

Department:

East Asian Languages and Cultures

Campus:

IU Bloomington

Lee researches Korean language and linguistics, the comparative study of East Asia languages, and “discourse-pragmatic” and cognitive approaches to grammar. Lee says he seeks functional explanations on why languages are structured in the ways they are through the ways human beings communicate with each other. He takes the view that communicative needs and strategies shape grammar, and grammar is the fossilization or routinization of recurrent communicative habits and patterns.