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Professor Adam Jaworski
Emeritus Professor and Honorary Professor

Professor Adam Jaworski

MA, PhD, DPhil Poznań

Contact Information

Email

jaworski@hku.hk

Profile

Adam Jaworski is Emeritus Professor at the University of Hong Kong and Honorary Professor at the School of English, University of Hong Kong. He was formerly at Cardiff University, Birkbeck College University of London, and Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań.

Selected Editorial / Advisory / Honorary Boards of journals include: Discourse, Context & Media, Discourse & Society, Journal of Sociolinguistics, Linguistic Landscape (former), and Discourse & Communication, Journal of Language and Politics, Journal of Silence Studies in Education, Language, Culture and Society, Language and Intercultural Communication, Language in Society, Lingua, Łódź Papers in Pragmatics, Multilingua, Visual Communication (current).

He co-edits the book series Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics (OUP; with David Karlander).

He is the author of The Power of Silence: Social and Pragmatic Perspectives (Sage, 1993), Tourism Discourse: The Language of Global Mobility (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, with Crispin Thurlow), editor of Silence: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Mouton de Gruyter, 1997), Metalanguage: Social and Ideological Perspectives (Mouton de Gruyter, 2004, with Nikolas Coupland and Dariusz Galasiński), Discourse, Communication and Tourism (Channel View, 2005, with Anette Pritchard),  The New Sociolinguistics Reader (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, with Nikolas Coupland), Semiotic Landscapes: Language, Image, Space (Continuum, 2010, with Crispin Thurlow), The Discourse Reader (2014, 3rd edition, Routledge, with Nikolas Coupland), The Elite Discourse: The Rhetorics of Status, Privilege and Power (Routledge, 2018, with Crispin Thurlow).

Publications

Recent publications include

Adam Jaworski. 2026. Review of Jacob Stewart-Halevy. 2026. The Casual: Downplaying Art Since California Conceptualism. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. Archiv für das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen. November.   

Adam Jaworski. 2026. Review of Gwynne Mapes. 2025. The Language Work of Speechwriters.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Language in Society. 10.1017/S0047404526102450

Corey Fanglei Huang and Adam Jaworski. 2026. Disrupting and (re)making the city: Public art and mental health activism in Hong Kong. Discourse & Communication 20/1: 3–22.

Crispin Thurlow and Adam Jaworski. 2025. Regrounding work in elite discourse. Pragmatics and Society 16/2. 151–173.

Sean P. Smith, Johan Järlehed, and Adam Jaworski. 2025. HOLLYWOOD: The political economy and global citation of an emblematic language object. Language in Society. 54/1: 57–88 (First published online 20 September 2023).

Adam Jaworski and Crispin Thurlow. 2023. Des relations éphémères. Une sociolinguistique du tourisme. Langage & Société 178/1: 23–49.

Adam Jaworski and Jackie Jia Lou. 2021. #wordswewear: Mobile texts, expressive persons, and conviviality in urban spaces. Social Semiotics 31/1. 108–135.

Adam Jaworski and Kellie Gonçalves. 2021. ‘High culture at street level’: Oslo’s Ibsen Sitat and the ethos of egalitarian nationalism. In Robert Blackwood and Unn Røyneland (eds.) Spaces of Multilingualism. London: Routledge. 135–164. doi.org/10.4324/9781003125839 (open access).

Adam Jaworski. 2020. Multimodal writing: The avant-garde assemblage and other minimal texts. International Journal of Multilingualism 17/3: 336–360.

Adam Jaworski. 2020. EAT, LOVE and other (small) stories: Tellability and multimodality in Robert Indiana’s word art. In Crispin Thurlow (ed.) The Business of Words: Linguists, Wordsmiths, and Other Language Workers. London: Routledge. 86–109.