Dr Xiangdong Liu
Biography
Dr Xiangdong Liu teaches in the areas of Japanese language, linguistics, translation and interpreting studies. Prior to her appointment at the University of Western Sydney, she worked as an interpreter and translator (Chinese - Japanese) for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Peoples Republic of China, and taught Japanese at Curtin University of Technology in Perth. She joined UWS in 1994 and developed the Japanese language programs at the Bankstown campus. Dr Liu is also a NAATI accredited interpreter (Japanese - English).
Qualifications:
PhD in Japanese Linguistics, University of Sydney.
Graduate Diploma in Interpreting and Translation, University of Western Sydney.
M.A. in Japanese Studies, University of Tsukuba, Japan.
B.A. in Japanese Language Studies, Beijing Foreign Studies University, China.
Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise
Japanese linguistics
Contrastive linguistics
Translation studies
Pragmatics
Discourse analysis
Selected Publications
Book
Liu, X. (2008). The Discourse Functions of the Modal Auxiliaries 'wake da' and 'no da' in Japanese. Munich: Lincom Europa Academic Publications. ISBN: 978-3-89586-296-0
Selected journal articles, book sections, and refereed conference proceedings
Liu, X. (2010). The "shi...de" construction in Chinese and its Japanese counterparts. In Conference Proceedings of the 8th Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, 13-16 January 2010 (pp. 2073-2081). Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. ISBN: 1541-5899.
Liu, X. (2000). An investigation of cohesive function of Japanese modal auxiliary 'hazu da'. In V. Mackie, A. Skoutarides & A. Tokita (Eds.), New Directions in Japanese Linguistics (pp. 285-310). Clayton, Victoria, Australia: Monash Asia Institute. ISBN: 0-7326-1187-3
Liu, X. (1996). A Study of "wake da". Nihongo Kyooiku (Journal of Japanese Language Teaching), 88, 48-60. ISSN: 0389-4037
Recent conference papers
Liu, X. (2010). Modal Expressions in Japanese and Chinese. In Universal Grammar and Individual Languages, Conference Proceedings of the 2010 Seoul International Conference on Linguistics 2010. Seoul, South Korea.
Liu, X. (2010). Nihongo no "no da" to Chuugokugo no "shi...de" koobun (The "no da" construction in Japanese and the "shi..de" construction in Chinese). Paper presented at the 140th Conference of the Linguistics Society of Japan, 19-20 June 2010, Tsukuba University, Japan.
Liu, X. (2009). Chuugokugo no "shi...de" koobun no danwa kinoo (The discourse functions of the "shi...de" construction in Chinese). Paper presented at the 12th Annual Conference of the Pragmatics Society of Japan, 5-6 December, 2009, Ryukoku University, Kyoto, Japan.
Liu, X. (2009). A comparison between the discourse functions of the "shi...de" construction in Chinese and the "no da" construction in Japanese. Paper presented at the 3rd HAAL Research Forum, Hong Kong Association for Applied Linguistics, 12 December 2009, Hong Kong, China.
Liu, X. (2008). Explaining "explanatory" modals. Paper presented at the Japanese Language Workshop, the Australian Linguistics Society Conference 2008, 4 July 2008, Sydney, Australia.
Liu, X. (2008). An investigation of the discourse functions of Japanese constructions "wake dewanai" and "no dewanai". Paper presented at the 2008 International Conference of Applied Linguistics, 24-25 October, 2008 Chiayi, Taiwan.
Liu, X. (2007). Disukoosu ni okeru "wake da" no kinoo - Kessokuteki goi rensa no kanten kara (The discourse functions of 'wake da' – an investigation from the viewpoint of lexical cohesion). Paper presented at the Autumn Conference of the Society for Japanese Linguistics, 17-18 November, 2007, Okinawa, Japan.
