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Professor Jaworski, Adam

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Professor Jaworski, Adam

Title:
Professor
Professor, Chair of Sociolinguistics

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Faculty:

Professional Qualifications
YearAwarding InstitutionQualification
1991Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznańDPhil in English sociolinguistics
1985Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznańPhD in English sociolinguistics
Biography

Adam Jaworski obtained his PhD (1985) and DPhil (1991) in English sociolinguistics from Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, where he taught as Assistant Professor until 1991. Between 1991–1992 he was Lecturer at the Department of Applied Linguistics at Birkeck College, University of London. In 1993 he moved to the Centre for Language and Communication Research, Cardiff University, where he became Professor in 2005. Adam joined the University of Hong Kong in 2012. His research interests include discursive and multimodal approaches to tourism, mobility and globalization; display of languages in space; media discourse; nonverbal communication; and text-based art. Adam serves as member of editorial board for the following journals: Journal of Sociolinguistics, Discourse & Society, Visual Communication, Access, Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, and Lodz Papers in Pragmatics. With Nik Coupland, he co-edits the book seriesOxford Studies in Sociolinguistics (Oxford University Press).

 
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Area of Expertise:
Area of Expertise (EN)Area of Expertise (ZH)
Sociolinguistics
Multimodality
Linguistic landscapes
Language and globalization
Language and art
Discourse analysis
Spoken Languages:
Spoken Language(s) (EN)Spoken Language(s) (ZH)
English, Polish英語, 波蘭語
English, Polish英語、波蘭語
Written Languages:
Written Language(s) (EN)Written Language(s) (ZH)
English, Polish英文、波蘭文
English, Polish英文, 波蘭文
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