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).