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Professor Adam Jaworski

Overview

Professor Adam Jaworski Position: Professor Email: Jaworski@cf.ac.uk
Telephone: +44(0)29 208 74243
Fax: +44(0)29 208 74242
Extension: 74243
Location: Humanities Extension, Colum Drive, Cathays, Cardiff

Research Group

Centre for Language and Communication Research

Research Interests

Sociolinguistic and discursive approaches to tourism, mobility and globalisation; media discourse; language and art; linguistic and semiotic landscapes; visual and non-verbal communication.

Selected Publications

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Publications

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

AUTHORED BOOKS

Adam Jaworski. 1993. The Power of Silence: Social and Pragmatic Perspectives. Newbury Park, CA.: Sage Publications.

Crispin Thurlow and Adam Jaworski. 2010. Tourism Discourse: The Language of Global Mobility. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

EDITED BOOKS

Adam Jaworski (ed.) 1997. Silence: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Nikolas Coupland and Adam Jaworski (eds) 1997. Sociolinguistics: A Reader and Coursebook. London: Macmillan.

Adam Jaworski and Nikolas Coupland (eds) 1999. The Discourse Reader. London: Routledge.

Adam Jaworski, Nikolas Coupland and Dariusz Galasiński (eds) 2004. Metalanguage: Social and Ideological Perspectives. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Adam Jaworski and Annette Pritchard (eds) 2005. Discourse, Communication and Tourism. Clevedon: Channel View Publications.

Adam Jaworski and Nikolas Coupland (eds) 2006. The Discourse Reader. 2nd edition. London and New York: Routledge.

Nikolas Coupland and Adam Jaworski (eds) 2009. The New Sociolinguistics Reader. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Nikolas Coupland and Adam Jaworski (eds) 2009. Sociolinguistics: Critical Concepts in Linguistics. Volumes 1–6. London: Routledge.

Adam Jaworski and Crispin Thurlow (eds) 2010. Semiotic Landscapes: Language, Image, Space. London: Continuum.

JOURNAL special issue

Adam Jaworski (ed.) 2005. Silence in Institutional and Intercultural Contexts. Special issue of Multilingua 24/1–2.

SELECTED JOURNAL ARTICLES

Adam Jaworski. 1994. Apologies and non-apologies: Negotiation in speech act realisation. TEXT 14/2. 185–206.

Adam Jaworski. 1995. ‘This is not an empty compliment!’ Polish compliments and the expression of solidarity. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 5/1. 63–94.

Nikolas Coupland and Adam Jaworski. 1997. Relevance, accommodation and conversation: Modelling the social dimension of communication. Multilingua 16/2–3. 231–256.

Dariusz Galasiński and Adam Jaworski. 1997. The linguistic construction of reality in The Black Book of Polish Censorship. Discourse & Society 8/3. 343–359.

Adam Jaworski. 1998. Talk and silence in The Interrogation. Language and Literature 7/2. 99–122.

Adam Jaworski and Dafydd Stephens. 1998. Self-reports on silence as a face-saving strategy by people with hearing impairment. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 8/1: 61–80.

Dafydd Stephens, Adam Jaworski, Patricia Kerr and Fei Zhao. 1998. Use of patient-specific estimates in patient evaluation and rehabilitation. Scandinavian Audiology 27. Supplement 49. 61–68.

Adam Jaworski and Dariusz Galasiński. 1998. The last Romantic hero: Lech Walesa’s image building in TV presidential debates. TEXT 18/4. 525–544.

Adam Jaworski and Itesh Sachdev. 1998. Beliefs about silence in the classroom. Language and Education 12/4. 273–292.

Adam Jaworski. 1998. The silence of power and solidarity in Fallen Sons. Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 33. 141–152.

S.D.G. Stephens, A. Jaworski, P. Lewis and S. Aslam. 1999. An analysis of communication tactics used by hearing-impaired adults. British Journal of Audiology 33: 17–27.

Adam Jaworski and Dariusz Galasiński. 2000. Vocative address forms and ideological legitimisation in political debates. Discourse Studies 2/1: 65–83.

Adam Jaworski and Dariusz Galasiński. 2000. Unilateral norm-breaking in a presidential debate: Lech Walesa vs. Aleksander Kwasniewski. Research on Language and Social Interaction 33/3: 321–345.

Adam Jaworski and Dariusz Galasiński. 2000. Strategies of silence: Omission and ambiguity in The Black Book of Polish Censorship. Semiotica 131–1/2: 185–200.

Adam Jaworski and Dariusz Galasiński. 2002. The verbal construction of non-verbal behaviour: British press reports of President Clinton’s grand jury testimony video. Discourse & Society 13/5: 629–649

Theo van Leeuwen and Adam Jaworski. 2002. The discourses of war photography: Photojournalistic representations of the Palestinian-Israeli war. Journal of Language and Politics 1/2: 255–275.

Adam Jaworski, Richard Fitzgerald and Deborah Morris. 2003. Certainty and speculation in news reporting of the future: The execution of Timothy McVeigh. Discourse Studies 5/1: 33–49.

Justine Coupland and Adam Jaworski. 2003. Transgression and intimacy in recreational talk narratives. Research on Language and Social Interaction 36/1. 85–106.

Hywel Bishop and Adam Jaworski. 2003. ‘We beat ’em’: Nationalism and the hegemony of homogeneity in the British press reportage of Germany versus England during Euro 2000. Discourse & Society 14/3: 243–271.

Adam Jaworski, Virpi Ylänne-McEwen, Crispin Thurlow and Sarah Lawson. 2003. Social roles and negotiation of status in host-tourist interaction: A view from British TV holiday programmes. Journal of Sociolinguistics 7/2 : 135–163.

Adam Jaworski, Crispin Thurlow, Sarah Lawson and Virpi Ylänne-McEwen. 2003. The uses and representations of host languages in tourist destinations: A view from British TV holiday programmes. Language Awareness 12/1: 5–29.

Crispin Thurlow and Adam Jaworski. 2003. Communicating a global reach: Inflight magazines as a globalising genre in tourism. Journal of Sociolinguistics 7/4: 581–608.

Dariusz Galasiński and Adam Jaworski. 2003. Representations of hosts in travel writing: The Guardian Travel section. Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change 1/2: 132–149.

Adam Jaworski, Richard Fitzgerald and Deborah Morris. 2004. Radio leaks: Presenting and contesting leaks in radio news broadcasts. Journalism 5/2: 183–202.

Crispin Thurlow, Adam Jaworski and Virpi Ylänne-McEwen. 2005. ‘Half-hearted tokens of transparent love’? ‘Ethnic’ postcards and the visual mediation of host–tourist communication. Tourism, Communication and Culture. 5/2. 93–104.

Adam Jaworski, Richard Fitzgerald and Odysseas Constantinou. 2005. Busy saying nothing new: Live silence in TV reporting of 9/11. Multilingua 24/1–2: 121–144.

Adam Jaworski and Justine Coupland. 2005. Othering in gossip: ‘you go out you have a laugh and you can pull yeah okay but like…’. Language in Society 34: 667–694.

Crispin Thurlow and Adam Jaworski. 2006. The alchemy of the upwardly mobile: Symbolic capital and the stylization of elites in frequent-flyer programs. Discourse & Society 17/1. 131–167.

David Machin and Adam Jaworski. 2006. Archive video footage in news: Creating a likeness and index of the phenomenal world. Visual Communication 5/3: 345–366.

Sarah Lawson and Adam Jaworski. 2007. Shopping and chatting: Reports of tourist–host interactions in The Gambia. Multilingua 26. 67–93.

Adam Jaworski and Richard Fitzgerald. 2008. ‘This poll has not happened yet’: Temporal play in election predictions. Discourse & Communication 2/1: 5–27.

Adam Jaworski. in press. Linguistic landscapes on postcards: Tourist mediation and the sociolinguistic communities of contact. Sociolinguistic Studies.

Crispin Thurlow and Adam Jaworski. submitted. Elite mobilities: The semiotic landscapes of luxury and privilege. Visual Communication.

BOOK CHAPTERS

Adam Jaworski. 1997. ‘White and white’: Metacommunicative and metaphorical silences. In Adam Jaworski (ed.) Silence: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 381–401.

Adam Jaworski. 2000. Silence and small talk. In Justine Coupland (ed.) Small Talk. London. Pearson Education. 110–132.

Adam Jaworski. 2001. Discourse, accumulation of symbolic capital and power: The case of American Visions. In Nikolas Coupland, Srikant Sarangi and Christopher N. Candlin (eds) Sociolinguistics and Social Theory. London: Pearson Education. 127–151.

Adam Jaworski. 2003. Talking bodies: Representations of norm and deviance in the BBC Naked programme. In Justine Coupland and Richard Gwyn (eds) Discourse, the Body and Identity. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 151–176.

Adam Jaworski. 2003. Political silencing: A view from Laurie Anderson’s performance art. In Lynn Thiesmeyer (ed.) Discourse and Silencing: Representation and the Language of Displacement. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 279–296.

Adam Jaworski and Crispin Thurlow. 2004. Language, tourism and globalization: Mapping new international identities. In Sik Hung Ng, Chrisopher N. Candlin and Chi Yue Chiu (eds) Language Matters: Communication, Identity, and Culture. Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong Press. 297–321.

Nikolas Coupland and Adam Jaworski. 2004. Sociolinguistic perspectives on metalanguage: Reflexivity, evaluation and ideology. In Adam Jaworski, Nikolas Coupland and Dariusz Galasiński (eds) Metalanguage: Social and Ideological Perspectives. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 15–51.

Adam Jaworski and Itesh Sachdev. 2004. Teachers’ beliefs about students’ talk and silence: Constructing academic success and failure through metapragmatic comments. In Adam Jaworski, Nikolas Coupland and Dariusz Galasiński (eds) Metalanguage: Social and Ideological Perspectives. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 227–244.

Adam Jaworski and Sarah Lawson. 2005. Discourses of Polish agritourism: Global, local, pragmatic. In Adam Jaworski and Annette Pritchard (eds) Discourse, Communication and Tourism. Clevedon: Channel View Publications. 123–149.

Valerie Manusov and Adam Jaworski. 2006. Casting nonverbal behavior in the media: Representations and responses. In Valerie Manusov and Miles Patterson (eds) The Handbook of Nonverbal Communication. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage. 237–255.

Adam Jaworski. 2007. Language in the media: Authenticity and othering. In Sally Johnson and Astrid Ensslin (eds) Language in the Media: Identity, Representation, Ideology. London: Continuum. 271–280.

Richard Fitzgerald, Adam Jaworski and William Housley. 2008. Generating news: Agenda setting in radio broadcast news. In Marcel Burger (ed.) L'analyse linguistique des discours médiatiques: Entre sciences du langage et sciences de la communication. Québec: Les Éditons Nota bene. 133–151.

Adam Jaworski and Ingrid Piller. 2008. Linguascaping Switzerland: Language ideologies in tourism. In Miriam A. Locher and Jürg Strässler (eds) Standards and Norms in the English Language. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 301–321

Adam Jaworski. 2009. Greetings in tourist–host encounters. In Nikolas Coupland and Adam Jaworski (eds) The New Sociolinguistics Reader. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 662–679.

Adam Jaworski and Crispin Thurlow. 2009. Taking an elitist stance: Ideology and the discursive production of social distinction. In Alexandra Jaffe (ed.) Stance: Sociolinguistic Perspectives. New York: Oxford University Press. 195–226.

Adam Jaworski and Crispin Thurlow. 2009. Gesture and movement in tourist spaces. In Carey Jewitt (ed.) Handbook of Multimodal Analysis. London: Routledge. 253–262.

Adam Jaworski and Crispin Thurlow. 2010. Introducing semiotic landscapes. In Adam Jaworski and Crispin Thurlow (eds.) Semiotic Landscapes: Language, Image, Space. London: Continuum. 1–40.

Crispin Thurlow and Adam Jaworski. 2010. Silence is golden: Elitism, linguascaping and ‘anti-communication’ in luxury tourism discourse. In Adam Jaworski and Crispin Thurlow (eds) Semiotic Landscapes: Language, Image, Space. London: Continuum. 187–218.

Adam Jaworski and Crispin Thurlow. 2010. Language and the globalizing habitus of tourism: Towards a sociolinguistics of fleeting relationships. In Nikolas Coupland (ed.) Handbook of Language and Globalisation. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. 255–286.

Adam Jaworski and Simone Yeung. 2010. Life in the Garden of Eden: The naming and imagery of residential Hong Kong. In Elana Shohamy, Eli Ben-Rafael and Monica Barni (eds) Linguistic Landscape in the City. Bristol: Multilingual Matters.

Crispin Thurlow and Adam Jaworski. 2011. Banal globalization? Embodied actions and mediated practices in tourists’ online photo-sharing. In Crispin Thurlow and Kristine Mroczek (eds.) Digital Discourse: Language in the New Media. New York: Oxford University Press. (in press).

Research

Adam Jaworski has published widely in sociolinguistics and discourse analysis (see ‘Publications’).

Co-PI, ‘Back to the Future’: Reporting of the Future in Broadcast News Programmes, Leverhulme-funded project, awarded to the Cardiff Centre for Language and Communication, 2001–2003.

Co-ordinator of the project ‘Language and Tourism as a Global Cultural Industry’ as part of the Leverhulme-funded research programme Language and Global Communication awarded to the Cardiff Centre for Language and Communication, 2001–2006.

Biography

Before coming to Cardiff, Adam Jaworski taught at the School of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, and at the Department of Applied Linguistics, Birkbeck College. He has held a number of guest and visiting appointments in Europe, North America, Asia and New Zealand.

Adam Jaworski co-edits (with Nik Coupland) the book series, Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics (OUP), and is a member of the editorial board for the following journals:

  • Discourse & Society

  • Visual Communication

  • Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change

  • Access: Cultural Perspectives on Communication, Cultural & Policy Studies

He was Reviews Editor for the Journal of Sociolinguistics (1995–2011).