Jonathan J. Webster
List of John Benjamins publications for which Jonathan J. Webster plays a role.
Articles
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
2018. Review
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
2009. 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
Clause alignment for Hong Kong legal texts: A lexical-based approach. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 9:1, pp. 29–51
2004. 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
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.
2000. Chapter