Wong, May. 2019. Multimodal communication: a social semiotic approach to text and image in print and digital media. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Wong, May. 2017. Hong Kong English: exploring lexicogrammar and discourse from a corpus-linguistic perspective. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Wong, May L-Y. 2013. Adverbial clauses in Mandarin Chinese: a corpus-based study. Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang.

Luke, Kang Kwong, & Wong, May L-Y. 2015. The Hong Kong Cantonese Corpus: design and uses. Linguistic corpus and corpus linguistics in the Chinese context (Journal of Chinese Linguistics Monograph Series, 25), ed. Benjamin Tsou and Oi Yee Kwong, 312-333. Berkeley, CA: The University of California.

Wong, May L-Y. 2012. Hong Kong English. The Mouton World Atlas of Variation in English, ed. Bernd Kortmann and Kerstin Lunkenheimer, 548-561. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

Wong, May L-Y. 2011. Hong Kong English. The electronic world atlas of varieties of English [eWAVE], ed. Bernd Kortmann and Kerstin Lunkenheimer. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Available online at http://www.ewave-atlas.org/.

Wong, May L-Y. 2022. The statue of Bruce Lee in the Hong Kong Heritage Museum: a multimodal social semiotic study of Chinese nationalism and masculinity. Chinese Semiotic Studies 18(4): 633-651.

Wong, May L-Y. 2022. Multimodality in Hong Kong government posters 1950s – 1980s: an appraisal analysis and the discursive construction of legitimation. Semiotica 2022 (246): 249-273.

Wong, May L-Y. 2021. Conceptual blending and slang expressions in Hong Kong Cantonese. Studies in Chinese Linguistics 42 (1): 97-120.

Wong, May L-Y. 2020. Mechanisms of semantic change: the case of Cantonese slang. Asian Languages and Linguistics 1 (2): 253-279.

Wong, May L-Y. 2019. Recontextualising cultural heritage and identity through three-dimensional spaces: the case of Hong Kong Maritime Museum. The International Journal of the Inclusive Museum 12 (2): 27-46.

Wong, May L-Y. 2018. Analysing visual imagery: connecting semiotic and cognitive perspectives. Cognitive Semantics 4 (1): 39-75.

Wong, May L-Y. 2017. Analysing discursive representations of aggression of social actors in political protests: combining corpus and cognitive approaches to discourse analysis. Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research 9 (3): 178-194.

Wong, May L-Y. 2014. Verb-preposition constructions in Hong Kong English: a cognitive semantic account. Linguistics 52 (3): 603-635.

Wong, May L-Y. 2012. Corpus linguistics and cognitive linguistics: a convergence of basic assumptions. International Journal of Cognitive Linguistics 3 (1): 43-68.

Wong, May L-Y. 2010. Hong Kong’s New Senior Secondary (NSS) English language curriculum: perspectives from corpus linguistics. Hong Kong Journal of Applied Linguistics 12 (2): 1-24.

Wong, May L-Y. 2010. “There are many ways to translate it”: Existential constructions in English-Chinese translation. Languages in Contrast 10 (1): 29-53.

Wong, May L-Y. 2010. Expressions of gratitude by Hong Kong speakers of English: Research from the International Corpus of English in Hong Kong (ICE-HK). Journal of Pragmatics 42 (5): 1243-1257.

Wong, May L-Y. 2009. Committee, staff, council, etc.: A corpus analysis of collective nouns in Hong Kong English. Asian Englishes 12 (1): 4-19.

Wong, May L-Y. 2009. Gei constructions in Mandarin Chinese and bei constructions in Cantonese: A corpus-driven contrastive study. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 14 (1): 60-80.

Wong, May L-Y. 2007. Tag questions in Hong Kong English: A corpus-based study. Asian Englishes 10 (1): 44-61.

Wong, May L-Y. 2006. Corpora and intuition: A study of Mandarin Chinese adverbial clauses and subjecthood. Corpora: Corpus-based Language Learning, Language Processing and Linguistics 1 (2): 187-216.

Wong, May L-Y. 2010. Review of Richard Xiao and Tony McEnery, Corpus-based contrastive studies of English and Chinese. Chinese Language and Discourse 1 (2): 329-334.

Wong, May L-Y. 2009. Review of Stig Johansson, Seeing through multilingual corpora: on the use of corpora in contrastive studies. Target: International Journal on Translation Studies 21 (1): 160-163.

Wong, May L-Y. 2006. Review of Tony McEnery, Richard Xiao and Yukio Tono, Corpus-based language studies: an advanced resource book. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 11 (4): 506-509.

Schnurr, S. & Zayts, O. (2017). Language and Culture at Work. Abingdon; New York: Routledge.

Zayts, O. & Bridges, S. (eds). (2023) “Language, Health and Culture: Problematizing ‘Global Centres’ and ‘Peripheries’ in Healthcare Communication Research”. Routledge.

Edmonds, D., Zayts-Spence, O. & Fortune, Z. (eds.) (2023) Discourse, Mental Health and Stigma: A Sociolinguistic Perspective. Special Issue. BMC Psychology. ​

Zayts, O. & Norrick, N. (eds.) (2020). Narratives of Vicarious Experiences in Professional and Workplace Discourse. Journal of Pragmatics. ​

Kang, M. A. & Zayts, O. (eds.) (2010). Medical Communication in the Asia Context. Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 20(2).

Tse, V. W. S., & Zayts-Spence, O. (2024). “Yu haf no idr how feckin fablus I feel rite now”:“Wine mom” humour in an online support group for mothers during COVID-19. Discourse, Context & Media, 61, 100816. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2024.100816

Edmonds, D.M., &  Zayts-Spence, O. (2024) “I’m not an anxious person”: end-of-life care workers constructing positive psychological states. BMC Psychology, 12. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-024-01885-5

Edmonds, D. M., Zayts-Spence, O., Au, I. N. Y., & Yuen, J. K. Y. (2024). “They are not taking it seriously”: Constructing family dynamics in end-of-life care interactions in Hong Kong. Death Studies, Advanced online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2024.2385383

Edmonds, D.M., Zayts-Spence, O., Fortune, Z., Chan, A., & Chou, J.S.G. (2024). A scoping review to map the research on the mental health of students and graduates during their university-to-work transitions. BMJ Open, 14(3), e076729. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-076729

Edmonds, D., Zayts-Spence, O., Fortune, Z., & Fung, S.Y.J. (2023). Graduates’ perceptions and employers’ expectations: Essential skills in Hong Kong workplaces during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. Industry and Higher Education. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/09504222231224087

Zayts-Spence, O., Edmonds, D., & Fortune, Z. (2023). Mental Health, Discourse and Stigma. BMC Psychology, 11(1), 180.

Ng, S., Wong, W.C.P., Reidy, H, & Zayts, O. (2023).“It’s personal”: The relationship between personal mental health experiences and public expressions of mental health stigma. BJPsy Open, 9(3). https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2023.39 

Zayts, O., Edmonds, D., Kong, C.K.B., & Fortune, Z. (2023). “The mental health of new and recent graduates during the university-to-work transition: A scoping review protocol. BMJ Open, doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-071357

Zayts, O., Fortune Z., & Tse W.S. (2022). “I am losing my sanity”: Online discourses of mental health of working mothers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Discourse and Society.

Edmonds, D., Zayts, O., Adler, C. (2022). Communicating in crisis: Reflections, opportunities, and challenges for healthcare communication in the COVID-19 pandemic. Qualitative Health Communication, 1(2): 104-117.

Lazzaro-Salazar, M. & Zayts, O. (2021) Migrant doctors' narratives about patients: A study of professional identity in Chile and Hong Kong. Narrative Inquiry. https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.21038.laz

Hui LC & Zayts, O. (2021) Elicitation of children’s understanding of information in pediatric genetic counseling: A discourse analytic approach. Journal of Genetic Counseling. https://doi.org/10.1002/jgc4.1523

Zayts, O., Chung, B.H.Y., & Fung, J.L.F. (2021). Cultural diversity in genetic counseling, or ‘Do language and culture really matter?’: An interdisciplinary investigation in Hong Kong. Journal of Genetic Counseling, 30(1): 75-84.

Wong, H.M., Bridges, S.M. Ma, K.W., Yiu CKY, McGrath, C.P., & Zayts, O.A.(2020). Advanced informatics understanding of clinician-patient communication: A mixed method approach to oral health literacy talk in interpreter-mediated pediatric dentistry. PLoS ONE, 15(3): e0230575.

Zayts, O. & Norrick, N. (2020). Narratives of vicarious experience in professional and workplace contexts: Introduction to the special issue. Journal of Pragmatics, 155: 64-49.

Zayts, O. (2020). “Pragmatics is the way of the future”: An interview with Neal Norrick. Journal of Pragmatics, 156: 16-23

Luo, Z., Zayts, O., & Shipman, H. (2020) “His story is truly vivid…”: The role of narratives of vicarious experience in commodification and marketisation of genetic testing in Chinese social media. Journal of Pragmatics, 155: 11-122.

Schnurr, S., Zayts, O., Schroeder, A., & Le Coyte-Hopkins, C. (2019). “It is not acceptable for the husband to stay at home”: Taking a discourse analytic perspective to capture the gendering at work. Gender, Work and Organization, 27 (3): 414-434.

Pilnick, A. & Zayts, O. (2019). The power of suggestion: Examining the impact of presence or absence of shared first language in the antenatal clinic. Sociology of Health and Illness, 41 (6): 1120-1137.

Zayts, O., Shipman, H., Fung, J. L-F., Liu, A. P-Y., Kwok, S-Y., Tsai, A. C-H., Yung, T-C., & Chung, B. H-Y. (2019). The different facets of “culture” in genetic counseling: A situated analysis of genetic counseling in Hong Kong. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C: Seminars in Medical Genetics, 181(2): 187-195.*

Chan, A., Schnurr, S. & Zayts, O. (2018). Exploring face, identity and relational work in disagreements in business meetings in Hong Kong. Journal of Politeness Research: Language, Behaviour, Culture, 14(2): 233-260.

Zayts, O. & Luo, Z. (2017). Commodification and marketization of genetic testing through online direct-to-consumer platforms. Discourse and Communication, 11(6), 630–647.

Laurino, M. Y., Leppig, K.A., Abad, P.J., Cham, B., Chu, Y., Kejriwal, S., Lee, J. M. H., Sternen, D. L., Thompson, J.K., Burgess, M., Chien, S., Elackatt, N., Lim, J. Y., Sura, T., Faradz, S., Padilla, C., Cutiongco de-la Paz, E., Nauphar, D., Khanh Nguyen, N., Zayts, O, Chi, D.V., & Thong, M.-K. (2017). The establishment of the Professional Society of Genetic Counselors in Asia: A Report from the genetic counseling pre-conference workshop held at the 11th Asia-Pacific Conference on Human Genetics in Hanoi, Viet Nam. Journal of Genetic Counselling, 27(1): 21-32.

Wong, H.M. G., Bridges, S.M., McGrath, C. P., Yiu, C. K. Y., Zayts, O., & Au, T.K.F. (2017). Impact of prominent themes in clinician-patient conversations on caregiver’s perceived quality of communication with paediatric dental visits. Plos One, 12(1): e0169059.

Zayts, O., Sarangi, S., & Schnurr, S. (2016). The management of diagnostic uncertainty and decision-making in genetics case conferences. Communication and Medicine, 13(1): 37-55.

Schnurr, S., Zayts, O., & Hopkins, C. (2016). Challenging hegemonic femininities. The discourse of trailing spouses in Hong Kong. Language in Society, 45 (4): 533-555.

Pilnick, A. & Zayts, O. (2016). Advice, authority and autonomy in Shared Decision Making in antenatal screening: The importance of context. Sociology of Health and Illness, 38 (3): 343-359. 

Bridges, S., Drew, P., Zayts, O., McGrath, C., Yiu, C.K.Y., Wong, H. M., Au, T. K. F., & Chong, B.H. (2015). Interpreter-mediated Dentistry. Social Science and Medicine, 132: 197-207.

Chan, A., Zhang, W., Zayts, O., Tang M. H.Y., & Tam, W. K. (2015). Directive-giving and grammatical forms: Mitigation devices in a medical laboratory setting. Chinese Language and Discourse, 6 (2): 133-161.

Zayts, O. & Schnurr, S. (2014). More than ‘information provider’ and ‘counselor’. Constructing and negotiating roles and identities of nurses in genetic counseling sessions. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 18(3): 345-369.

Pilnick, A. & Zayts, O. (2014). ‘It’s just a likelihood’: uncertainty as topic and resource in conveying ‘positive’ results in an antenatal screening clinic. Symbolic Interaction, 37(2): 187-208. 

Yau, A. & Zayts, O. (2014). "I don’t want to see my children suffering after birth": The ‘risk of knowing’ talk and decision-making in prenatal screening for Down syndrome in Hong Kong. Health, Risk and Society, 16(3): 259-276.

Schnurr, S., van de Mieroop, D. & Zayts, O. (2014). Positioning oneself in relation to larger collectivities in expatriates’ workplace narratives. Narrative Inquiry, 24 (2).

Zayts, O., Sarangi, S., Thong, M.K., Chung, B.H.Y., Lo, I.F.M., Kan, A.S.Y., Lee, M.H., Padilla, C.D., Cutiongco-de la Paz, E.M., Faradz, M.H.S., & Wasant, P. (2013). Genetic counseling/consultation in South-East Asia: A report from the workshop at the 10th Asia Pacific Conference on Human Genetics. Journal of Genetic Counseling, 22 (6): 917-924. 

Kang, M. A. & Zayts, O. (2013). Interactional difficulties as a resource for patient participation in a prenatal screening setting in Hong Kong. Patient Education and Counseling, 92: 38-44.

Schnurr, S. & Zayts, O. (2013). “I can't remember them ever not doing what I tell them!” Negotiating ‘upward’ refusals in multicultural workplaces in Hong Kong. Intercultural Pragmatics, 10 (4): 593 – 616.

Zayts, O. & Sarangi, S. (2013). Modes of risk explanation in telephone consultations between nurses and parents for a genetic condition. Health, Risk and Society, 5(2): 194-215. 

Zayts, O. & Schnurr, S. (2013). “[She] said: ‘take the test’ and I took the test”. Relational work as a framework to approach directiveness in prenatal screening of Chinese clients in Hong Kong. Journal of Politeness Research: Language, Behavior, Culture, 9(2): 187-210.

Schnurr, S. & Zayts, O. (2012). ‘You have to do what you have to do’: Constructing professional identities in multicultural workplaces in Hong Kong. Pragmatics, 22(2): 279-299.

Pilnick, A. & Zayts, O. (2012). “Let’s have it tested first”: Choice and circumstances in decision-making following positive antenatal screening in Hong Kong. Sociology of Health and Illness, Special issue, The Sociology of Medical Screening: Past, Present and Future, N. Armstrong & H. Eborall, eds., 34 (2): 266-282. 

Zayts, O. & Schnurr, S. (2011). Laughter as a medical provider’s resource: Negotiating informed choice in prenatal genetic counseling. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 44 (1): 1-20.

Zayts, O. & Kang, A.M. (2010). Communication in healthcare settings: Interactional perspectives from Asia. Journal of Asian Pacific Communication, 20(2): 165-168.

Zayts, O. & Kang, A. M. (2010). Information delivery in prenatal genetic counseling: On the role of initial Inquiries. Journal of Asian Pacific Communication, 20(2): 243-259.

Kang, M. A. & Zayts, O. (2010). Patient participation within a globalised patient population: Interactional difficulties in a prenatal counseling context in Hong Kong. Journal of Asian Pacific Communication, 20(2): 169-184.

Zayts, O. & Kang, A.M. (2009). ‘So, what test do you prefer?’ Negotiating politic behavior in an L2 prenatal genetic counselling setting in Hong Kong. Journal of Politeness Research: Language, Behaviour, Culture, 5 (1): 33-52.

Edmonds, D. M., & Zayts-Spence, O. (2023). Conclusion: Advancing healthcare communication research in “Global Peripheries.” In O. Zayts-Spence & S. M. Bridges (Eds.), Language, Health and Culture: Problematizing the Centers and Peripheries of Healthcare Communication Research (pp. 173–192). Routledge.

Luo, Z., & Zayts-Spence, O. (2023). The discursive construction and negotiation of genetic knowledge in an online health forum in Mainland China. In O. Zayts-Spence & S. M. Bridges (Eds.), Language, Health and Culture: Problematizing the Centers and Peripheries of Healthcare Communication Research (pp. 138–153). Routledge.

Shipman, H. & Zayts, O. (2023) The “mad consultant dealing with mad people”: A discursive historical approach to tensions regarding mental health stigma in Hong Kong. To appear in: Zayts, O. & Bridges, S. eds. Language, Health and Culture: Problematizing ‘Global Centres’ and ‘Peripheries’ in Healthcare Communication Research. Routledge.

Edmonds, D. M., Zayts-Spence, O., & Yuen, J. K. Y. (2023). Exploring end-of-life care in palliative care consultations in Hong Kong. In O. Zayts-Spence & S. M. Bridges (Eds.), Language, Health and Culture: Problematizing the Centers and Peripheries of Healthcare Communication Research (pp. 82–100). Routledge.

Zayts, O. (2023) Introduction to “Language, Health and Culture: Problematizing ‘Global Centers’ and ‘Peripheries’ in Healthcare Communication Research”. In O. Zayts-Spence & S. M. Bridges (Eds.), Language, Health and Culture: Problematizing the Centers and Peripheries of Healthcare Communication Research. Routledge.

Zayts, O., Sarangi, S. & Schnurr, S. (2023). Shared expertise in negotiating future actions in the genetics case conference. In S. Sarangi & P. Linell, eds. Team Talk. Decision-making across the Boundaries in Health and Social Care. London: Equinox Publishing.

Zayts, O. & Lazzaro-Salazar, M. (2020). A sociolinguistic investigation of professional mobility and multicultural healthcare communication. In Z. Demjén, ed. Applying Linguistics in Illness and Healthcare Contexts. Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 299-325.

Zayts, O. & Zhou, F. (2020). Politeness and relational work in novel digital contexts of healthcare communication. In D. Archer, K. Grainger & P. Jogodziński, eds. Politeness in Professional Contexts. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins, pp. 107-126.

Zayts, O. (2017). Genetic Counselling/Consultations in Non-English Dominant Contexts: Decision-making regarding testing. In B. Vine, ed. Routledge Handbook of Language in the Workplace (Handbooks in Linguistics Series). Routledge, pp. 187-199.

Zayts, O. & Schnurr, S. (2017). Epistemic ‘struggles’. When nurses’ expert identity is challenged by ‘knowledgeable’ clients. In D. van de Mieroop & S. Schnurr, eds. Identity Struggles. Evidence from Workplaces around the World.Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins, pp. 79-93.

Zayts, O. & Schnurr, S. (2017). Patient laughter as an interactional resource in an L2 context of prenatal screening in Hong Kong. In N. Bell, ed. Multiple Perspectives on Language Play. Language Play and Creativity Series, vol. 1, Berlin, Boston: de Gruyter Mouton. 119-142.

Schnurr, S., Chan, A., Loew, J. & Zayts, O. (2017). Leadership and culture: When stereotypes meet actual workplace practice. In C. Ilie & S. Schnurr, eds. Challenging leadership stereotypes through discourse: Power, management and gender. Springer, pp. 95-117.

Zayts, O. & Pilnick, A. (2014). Genetic counseling in multilingual and multicultural contexts. In H. Hamilton & Chou, W.-Y., eds. Handbook on Language and Health Communication. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 557-572.

Zayts, O. & Schnurr, S. (2012). “You may know better than I do”. Negotiating advice-giving on Down syndrome screening in a Hong Kong prenatal hospital. In H. Limberg & M. A. Locher, eds. Advice in Discourse. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 195-212.

Zayts, O., Wake, V. Y., & Schnurr, S. (2012). Chinese prenatal genetic counseling discourse in Hong Kong: Health care providers’ (non)directive stance, or who is making the decision. In Y. Pan & D. Gazdar, eds. Chinese Discourse and Interaction: Theory and Practice. London: Equinox. 228-247.

Pilnick, A. & Zayts, O. (2012). “Let’s have it tested first”: Choice and circumstances in decision-making following positive antenatal screening in Hong Kong. In N. Armstrong & H. Eborall, eds. The Sociology of Medical Screening: Critical Perspectives, New Directions. 1st edition. Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

Schnurr, S. & Zayts, O. (2011). Be(com)ing a leader. A case study of co-constructing professional identities at work. In J. Angouri & M. Marra, (eds). Professional Identity. Basingstoke [England]; New York Palgrave McMillan, pp. 40-60.

Zayts, O., Kang, M.A. & Zhang, W. (2009). Pursuing informed choice in prenatal genetic counseling: a discourse analytic perspective. In R. Ma, ed. 醫病溝通知多少 (How Much Do You Know about Doctor-Patient Communication?). Hong Kong: 匯知教育出版有限公司 (KAI Education Publishing Co., Ltd.) (in Chinese). 161-187.

Zayts-Spence, O., Fortune, Z., Edmonds, D., Chan, C. K. Y., Fung, J., Luk, P., Thiang, O., Wong, P. W. C., Chan, A., & Chou, S. G. (2023). University to Work Transitions: Students and Graduates’ Experiences during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Hong Kong. In City Mental Health Alliance Hong Kong. HKU Research and Impact Initiative on Communication in Healthcare. https://www.cmhahk.org/docs/Research/HKU-RIICH-Corporate-Report.pdf

Zayts-Spence, O., Edmonds, D. M., Fortune, Z., Chan, C., Fung, J., Hafner, C., Ho, J., Lee, C., Luk, P., Thiang, O., Wong, P. W. C., Chan, A., & Chou, S. G. (2023). Pandemic Transitions: Graduating from University into the Workforce in Hong Kong during COVID-19. In Hong Kong Student Services Association. HKU Research and Impact Initiative on Communication in Healthcare. https://www.hkssa.org.hk/_files/ugd/905996_55402e4ffa704d698d5d1a849be91a63.pdf

2026. Sex, gender, sexuality and orientation in biomedical research articles on intersex variations: A diachronic corpus analysis. Culture, Health & Sexuality, Advance Online Publication. (with Carmen Dayrell and Virginia Zorzi)

2026. Abnormal deceivers? Biopower in clinician accounts of embodiment and life for people with intersex variations. Applied Linguistics, Advance Online Publication.

2026. Language, gender and biopolitics: Meaning-making and intersex variations in healthcare. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2026. Risk and danger on the rise: Representation of intersex variations of innate sex characteristics in biomedical research. Social Science & Medicine, 389(118808), 1-11. (with Carmen Dayrell and Virginia Zorzi)

2023. The future of pronouns in the online/offline nexus. In Laura Paterson (Ed.), Routledge handbook of pronouns (Chapter 6). Abingdon: Routledge. (with Archie Crowley)

2023. Communicating health knowledges across clinic and community: The case of sex characteristics in plurilingual Hong Kong. In O. Zayts-Spence, & S.M. Bridges (Eds.), Language, health and culture: Problematising the centres and peripheries of healthcare communication research (pp. 101-118). Abingdon: Routledge.

2023. Merging mobilities: Querying knowledges, actions, and chronotopes in discourses of transcultural relationships from a North/South queer contact zone. Critical Discourse Studies, 20(2), 111-127. (with Benedict Rowlett)

2022. Epilogue: Geopolitical lenses (and mirrors) in workplace language and gender research. In L. Mullany, & S. Schnurr (Eds.), Globalisation, geopolitics, and gender in professional communication (pp. 213-223). Abingdon: Routledge.

2022. Biopolitics and intersex human rights: A role for Applied Linguistics. In C.W. Chun (Ed.), Applied Linguistics and Politics. London: Bloomsbury.

2021. Engaging peers and future parents, creating future turbulence: Activist biocitizenship practices and intersex transgression in the classroom. Sex Education 21(5).

2019. Communities of Practice in Language Research. London: Routledge.

2019. Language and embodied sexuality. In K. Hall and R. Barrett (Eds), The Oxford Handbook of Language and Sexuality. New York: Oxford University Press.

2018. Hip Hop headz in sex ed: Gender, agency and styling in New Zealand. Language in Society 47(4).

2017. Language, sexuality and place: The view from cyberspace. In T. M. Milani (Ed.), Queering Language, Gender and Sexuality (pp. 256-280). New York: Equinox.

2017. Communities of practice. In B. Vine (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Language in the Workplace (pp. 101-111). New York: Routledge.

2017. Querying heteronormativity among transnational Pasifika teenagers in New Zealand: An Oceanic approach to language and masculinity. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 21(3), 442-464.

2017. Gender and sociopragmatics. In A. Barron, Y. Gu, & G. Steen (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Pragmatics (pp. 121-138). London: Routledge.  (with Janet Holmes)

2017. Traversing the erotic oasis: Online chatting and the space/time continuum. ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies, 16(3), 475-499.

2016. Becoming the intelligible other: speaking intersex bodies against the grain. Critical Discourse Studies, 13(4), 359-378.

2016. Language education, gender, and sexuality. In T. McCarty, & S. May (Eds.), Language policy and political issues in education (3rd ed., pp. 85-97). (Encyclopedia of language and education). New York: Springer. (with Benedict Rowlett)

2015. Wikipedia writing as praxis: Computer-mediated socialization of second-language writers. Language Learning and Technology, 19(3), 106-123.

2015. Online writing as a discovery process: Synchronous collaboration. In M. Pennington, T. Costley, & A. Chick (Eds.), Creativity and Discovery in the University Writing Class (pp. 321-345). New York: Equinox.

2015. Language and sexuality in education. In Patricia Whelehan, & Anne Bolin (Eds.), The International Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality (pp. 649-719). New York: John Wiley & Sons.

2015. Investigating digital sex talk practices: A reflection on corpus-assisted discourse analysis. In Rodney H. Jones, Alice Chik, & Christoph A. Hafner (Eds.), Discourse and Digital Practices: Doing Discourse Analysis in the Digital Age (pp. 130-143). London: Routledge.

2014. Reclaiming masculinity in an account of lived intersex experience: Language, desire, and embodied knowledge. In T. M. Milani (Ed.), Language and Masculinities: Performances, Intersections, Dislocations (pp. 220-242). London: Routledge.

2014. Gender and pragmatics. In Carol A. Chapelle (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics New York: John Wiley & Sons. (with Janet Holmes)

2014. Inverting virginity, abstinence, and conquest: Sexual agency and subjectivity in classroom conversation. Sexualities, 17(3), 310-328.

2014. Tracing the emergence of a community of practice: Beyond presupposition in sociolinguistic research. Language in Society, 43(1), 61-81.

2014. Trivial, mundane or revealing? Food as a lens on ethnic norms in workplace talk. Language and Communication, 34(1), 46-55. (with Meredith Marra and Janet Holmes)

2013. How permeable is the formal-informal boundary at work? An ethnographic account of the role of food in workplace discourse. In C. Gerhardt, M. Frobenius, & S. Ley (Eds.), Culinary Linguistics: The Chef's Special (pp. 191-209). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing (with Janet Holmes and Meredith Marra)

2012. Location, Iore and language: An erotic triangle. Journal of Language and Sexuality, 1(1), 106-125.

2011. Language, sexuality and place: The view from cyberspace. Gender and Language, 5(1), 1-30.

2010. “All us girls were like euuh!”: Conversational work of be like in New Zealand adolescent talk. New Zealand English Journal, 24(1), 17-36.

2009. Building and analysing corpora of computer-mediated communication. In P. Baker (Ed.), Contemporary Corpus Linguistics (pp. 301-320). London: Continuum.

2008. “Being gay guy, that is the advantage”: Queer Korean language learning and identity construction. Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 7(3-4), 230-252.

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.