Webster, Jonathan
Associate Professor
Southeast Asian Studies
City University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Biography
Prof. Jonathan WEBSTER received his PhD from the State University of New York at Buffalo in Linguistics. Prior to coming to Hong Kong in 1987, he taught at the National University of Singapore in the Department of English Language and Literature. His research interests include text linguistics, computational lexicography, and example-based machine translation. Research and Teaching Interests Text Linguistics Computational Lexicography Example-based Machine Translation
Research Interest
Intelligent linguistic applications
Publications
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Halliday, M.A.K. and Webster, Jonathan J. Text Linguistics: The How and Why of Meaning. London: Equinox. 2014.
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Webster, Jonathan J. Understanding Verbal Art: A Functional Linguistic Approach. Springer, 2014.
