Jonathan J. Webster
List of John Benjamins publications for which Jonathan J. Webster plays a role.
Articles
2018. Wendy L. Bowcher and Jennifer Yameng Liang (eds.) Society in language, language in society: Essays in honour of Ruqaiya Hasan . Functions of Language 25:2, pp. 323–327
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2009. Language in Hong Kong: Ten years on (1997–2007). World Englishes – Problems, Properties and Prospects: Selected papers from the 13th IAWE conference, Hoffmann, Thomas and Lucia Siebers (eds.), pp. 143–154
Ten years after the return of Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty, English continues to play a significant role in the life of the Hong Konger. This paper surveys the changing perception of English in Hong Kong since 1997: while it used to be considered a colonial language, it has now turned into an… read more | Article
2004. Clause alignment for Hong Kong legal texts: A lexical-based approach. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 9:1, pp. 29–51
In this paper we report on our recent work in clause alignment for English-Chinese bilingual legal texts using available lexical resources including a bilingual legal glossary and a bilingual dictionary, for the purpose of acquiring examples at various linguistic levels for example-based machine… read more | Article
2000. 10. Language as Human Action. Functional Approaches to Language, Culture and Cognition: Papers in honor of Sydney M. Lamb, Lockwood, David G., Peter H. Fries and James E. Copeland (eds.), pp. 159 ff.
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