Professor Adam Jaworski | People | School of English | Faculty of Arts

Emeritus Professor and Honorary Professor

Professor Adam Jaworski

MA, PhD, DPhil Poznań

Emeritus Professor and Honorary Professor

Professor Adam Jaworski

MA, PhD, DPhil Poznań

PROFILE

Adam Jaworski obtained his MA (1979), PhD (1985), and DPhil (1991) in English sociolinguistics from Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, where he taught as Assistant Professor until 1991. Between 1991–1992 he was Lecturer at the Department of Applied Linguistics at Birkbeck, University of London. In 1993 he moved to the Centre for Language and Communication Research, Cardiff University. In 2012 he joined the University of Hong Kong. His research interests include discursive and multimodal approaches to tourism, mobility and globalization; display of writing in space; media discourse; nonverbal communication; and text-based art.

Adam serves as member of the editorial board for several journals including: Discourse, Context & Media; Discourse & Society; Journal of Language and Politics; Journal of Multilingual Theories and Practices; Journal of Sociolinguistics; Language, Culture and Society; Language and Intercultural Communication; Language in Society; Lingua; Linguistic Landscape; The Mouth: Critical Studies on Language, Culture and Society; Multilingua; Visual Communication

With Brook Bolander, he co-edits the book series Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics (Oxford University Press).

PUBLICATIONS

Selected Publications (since 2015; for more see https://hku-hk.academia.edu/AdamJaworski)

Adam Jaworski and Kellie Gonçalves. in press. ‘High culture at street level’: Oslo’s Ibsen Sitat and the ethos of egalitarian nationalism. In Robert Blackwood and Unn Røyneland (eds.) Trajectories of Language: Policies, Spaces, and Interactions. London: Routledge.

Adam Jaworski and Li Wei (eds.). 2021. Writing (in) the City. Special issue of Social Semiotics 31/1.

Adam Jaworski and Li Wei. 2021. Introducing writing (in) the city. Social Semiotics 31/1: 1–13.

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. 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.

Adam Jaworski. 2019. Between silence and noise: Towards an entangled sociolinguistics of tourism. In Angelika Mietzner and Anne Storch (eds.). 2019. Linguistic Entanglements, Emblematic Codes and Representation in Tourism. Bristol: Channel View Publications. 157–167.

Adam Jaworski. 2019. The art of silence in upmarket spaces of commerce. In Martin Pütz and Neele Mundt (eds.) Expanding the Linguistic Landscape: Linguistic Diversity, Multimodality and the Use of Space as a Semiotic Resource. Bristol: Multilingual Matters. 89–114.

Adam Jaworski. 2019. Tourism tensions and sociolinguistic change. Applied Linguistics Review. 12/1: 153–164 (Online First, 2019).

Adam Jaworski. 2019. Commentary: Intersectionality as family discourse and (banal) nationalism. Discourse, Context & Media 32. 1–9.

Adam Jaworski. 2019. X. Linguistic Landscape 5(2): 115–141.

Adam Jaworski. 2018. Language ideologies in the text-based art of Xu Bing: Implications for language policy and planning. In James W. Tollefson and Miguel Pérez-Milans (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Language Policy and Planning. New York: Oxford University Press. 677–703.

Crispin Thurlow and Adam Jaworski. 2017. Word-things and thing-words: The transmodal production of privilege and status. In Jillian R. Cavanaugh and Shalini Shankar (eds.). Language and Materiality: Ethnographical and Theoretical Explorations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 185–203.

Adam Jaworski. 2017. Television as art: Art on television. In Janus Mortensen, Nikolas Coupland and Jacob Thøgersen (eds.) Style, Identity and Mediation: Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Talking Media. New York: Oxford University Press. 165–195.

Adam Jaworski. 2017. Epilogue: The moiré effect and the art of assemblage. Social Semiotics 27/4: 532–543.

Crispin Thurlow and Adam Jaworski (eds.) 2017. The Elite Discourse: The Rhetorics of Status, Privilege and Power. Social Semiotics 27/3.

Crispin Thurlow and Adam Jaworski. 2017. The discursive production and maintenance of class privilege: Permeable geographies, slippery rhetorics. Discourse & Society 28 (5). 535–558.

Adam Jaworski and Crispin Thurlow. 2017. Mediatizing the ‘super-rich’, normalizing privilege. Social Semiotics 27/3: 273–287.

Crispin Thurlow and Adam Jaworski. 2017. Introducing elite discourse: The rhetorics of status, privilege, and power. Social Semiotics 27/3: 243–254.

Adam Jaworski. 2016. Silence and creativity: Re-mediation, transduction and performance. In Rodney H. Jones (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Language and Creativity. London: Routledge. 322–335.

Adam Jaworski. 2016. Visual silence and non-normative sexualities: Art, transduction and performance. Gender and Language 10/3: 433–454.

Jackie Jia Lou and Adam Jaworski. 2016. Itineraries of protest signage: Semiotic landscape and the mythologizing of the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement. Journal of Language and Politics 15/5: 612–645.

Adam Jaworski. 2015. Word cities and language objects: ‘Love’ sculptures and signs as shifters. Linguistic Landscape 1/1–2: 75–94.

Johan Järlehed and Adam Jaworski (eds.) 2015. Typographic Landscaping: Creativity, Ideology, Movement. Special issue of Social Semiotics 25/2.

Johan Järlehed and Adam Jaworski. 2015. Typographic landscaping: Creativity, ideology, movement. Social Semiotics 25/2: 117–125.

Adam Jaworski. 2015. Globalese: A new visual-linguistic register. Social Semiotics 25/2: 217–235.

Crispin Thurlow and Adam Jaworski. 2015. On top of the world: Tourists’ spectacular self-locations as multimodal travel writing. In Julia Kuehn and Paul Smethurst (eds.) New Directions in Travel Writing Studies. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 35–53.

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Discourse analysis; Linguistic landscapes; Sociolinguistics