Head:     Dr Webster, Jonathan James
BA MA PhD SUNY Buffalo

The Department of Chinese, Translation & Linguistics offers programmes of study at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels designed to address the growing needs of Hong Kong and other Chinese communities for language professionals well versed in areas such as Chinese, translation and interpretation, comparative cultural studies, linguistics and language technology, Japanese and Korean.

At the undergraduate level, our programmes include the BA (Hons) in Chinese, BA (Hons) in Linguistics and Language Technology, BA (Hons) in Translation and Interpretation, and a self-financed programme BA (Hons) in Language Studies (with specialisation in Chinese, Linguistics and Language Technology, Translation and Interpretation, Japanese, Korean). In addition, the Department also offers minors in Chinese for professional purposes, Japanese studies and Korean studies.

At the postgraduate level, the Department offers two self-financed programmes: MA in Language Studies (with specialisation in Language and Law, Linguistics, or Translation and Interpretation), MA in Chinese (with specialisation in Chinese Language and Literature, Chinese for Professional Purposes).   Apart from taught programmes mentioned above, the Department also offers research degree studies toward MPhil and PhD degrees in the application of linguistics and language technology.

The Department encourages and promotes applied research in such areas as applications of linguistics and language technology, the study of Chinese language and literature, and translation and cross-cultural studies. Research emphases in the Department include translation (machine and human), cultural and heritage management, corpus linguistics, language and law, computer assisted language learning, phonetics, comparative literature, terminology and scholarship in Chinese and other Asian languages.