Jonathan J. Webster

Jonathan J. Webster

List of John Benjamins publications for which Jonathan J. Webster plays a role.

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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
Kit, Chunyu, Jonathan J. Webster, King-Kui Sin, Haihua Pan and Heng Li. 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
Webster, Jonathan J. 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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