William Lee is a lecturer at the Center for Language Education. He has taught on a wide variety of ESP, EAP and communication courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Prior to teaching he spent a number of years working in trading and finance.
Professional Interests
William’s research interests are in the following areas:
- Professional and Corporate Communication
- Cross-cultural and intercultural communication
- Discourse Analysis
- Corpus Linguistics
Scholarship
2023
Journal Publication
Representation of the "business-self": professionals' construction of multifaceted identities in business communication
Lee, W. W. L.
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijal.12512
2023
Conference Presentation
AI and persuasive professional communication: an exploratory study of interactional metadiscourse in ChatGPT-composed CEO's letters to shareholders
Lee, W. W. L. & McMinn, S. W. J.
Paper presented at the Joint conference: Talking Across the World & Business and professional communication in a changing world. City University of Hong Kong and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. 16-18 May 2023
2021
Journal Publication
Emotion in business communication: A comparative study of attitude markers in the discourse of U.S. and mainland Chinese corporations.
Lee, W. W. L.
Discourse & Communication. https://doi.org/10.1177/17504813211026541
2020
Journal Publication
Impression management through hedging and boosting: a cross-cultural investigation of the messages of U.S. and Chinese corporate leaders.
Lee, W. W. L.
Lingua. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2020.102872
2020
Chapter in Edited Volume
Intercultural communication in professional and workplace settings
Warren, M. and Lee, W. W. L.
In Jackson, J. (Ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Language and Intercultural communication (2nd ed.), Routledge.
2016
Conference Presentation
A corpus-based analysis of reader engagement in the letter to shareholders: a cross-cultural study of Chinese and U.S. corporate communication
LEE, William
Paper presented at the Korean Association of Language Sciences (KALS) and Korean Association of Corpus Linguistics (KACL) Joint International Conference 2016. Pusan National University, Busan, Korea. 25-25 August 2016
Paper presented at the Korean Association of Language Sciences (KALS) and Korean Association of Corpus Linguistics (KACL) Joint International Conference 2016. Pusan National University, Busan, Korea. 25-25 August 2016
2018
Conference Presentation
The CEO’s representation of the self and the corporation: a cross cultural study of Chinese and U.S. letter to shareholders
LEE, William
Paper presented at the 15th International Conference on Language and Social Psychology (ICLASP) & the 5th Language in the Realm of Social Dynamics (LIROD) Conference. University of Thai Chamber of Commerce, Bangkok, Thailand. 22-25 Jun 2016
2016
Conference Presentation
The use of Attitude markers in the CEO’s letter to shareholders: a cross-cultural investigation of Chinese and U.S. corporate narratives
LEE, William
Paper presented at the 8th Biennial Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies (IVACS) Conference. Bath Spa University, Bath, UK. 16-17 Jun 2016.
2015
Conference Presentation
Cross-cultural variation in the use of metadiscourse in the chairman’s letter of Chinese and US corporations
LEE, William
Paper presented at the 14th Association for Business Communication (ABC) Asia-Pacific Conference. Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China. 27-29 Nov 2015
2015
Conference Presentation
Contrastive analysis of metadiscourse in the chairman’s letter and the corporate governance report
LEE, William
Paper presented at the Eighth International Conference in Discourse, Communication and the Enterprise (DICOEN). University of Naples, Naples, Italy. 11-13 Jun 2015.
2015
Conference Presentation
A corpus-driven study of the distinguishing phraseologies of corporate governance reports
LEE, William
Warren, M. & Lee, W. W. L. Paper presented at the Eighth International Conference in Discourse, Communication and the Enterprise (DICOEN). University of Naples, Naples, Italy. 11-13 Jun 2015