Salinah Jaafar adalah pensyarah kanan berjawatan Profesor Madya di Akademi Pengajian Melayu. Memiliki ijazah Sarjana Muda (Bahasa Melayu, 1991), Sarjana (1998) dan Doktor Falsafah (2008) dalam bidang Leksikologi.  Beliau  telah dihantar  ke Pusat Penyelidikan Akademik untuk Bahasa Inggeris (CARE), di Jabatan Bahasa Inggeris di Universiti Birmingham selama 6 bulan  semasa pengajian peringkat Doktor Falsafah. Mantan Pengarah Akademi Pengajian Melayu (2020-2022), merupakan seorang pensyarah dan penceramah dalam bidang Kesantunan Berbahasa,  Linguistik, dan Terjemahan Bahasa Melayu yang banyak menghasilkan penulisan dan penyelidikan dalam bidang tersebut. Salinah Jaafar banyak menulis artikel ilmiah yang diterbitkan dalam jurnal berindeks Scopus dan ISI, serta buku ilmiah yang diterbitkan oleh penerbit MAPIM. Sangat dedikasi dalam pengajaran dan pendidikan , amat tekun dan berbangga dengan kerjaya yang diceburi serta sentiasa berusaha memberikan kualiti pengajaran dan perkongsian ilmu terbaik kepada masyarakat. Di samping tugas rutin, Salinah Jaafar juga terlibat dalam penyelidikan, penerbitan serta menyertai banyak seminar dan persidangan di dalam dan luar negara.  Berdasarkan pengalaman sebagai pentadbir dan ahli pengurusan universiti Malaya dan Akademi Pengajian Melayu,  beliau juga terlibat dalam membuat keputusan yang tepat ketika melatih dan mempromosikan staf, dan merangka kurikulum program. Selain itu, dia juga aktif dalam penyelidikan FRGS dalam bidang Pragmatik, Hubungan Etnik, Perkembangan Korpus Melayu, Linguistik Komputer  dan Terjemahan Hadis.  Beliau telah berkhidmat sebagai pensyarah di Universiti Malaya selama hampir 30 tahun dan sentiasa bersemangat dan penuh minat dan meningkatkan hasil kualiti kerjayanya.

Salinah Jaafar is a senior lecturer holding the position of Associate Professor at the Academy of Malay Studies. She holds a Bachelor's degree (Malay Language, 1991), a Master's degree (1998), and a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree (2008) in the field of Lexicology. She was sent to the Centre for Advanced Research in English (CARE) at the Department of English, University of Birmingham, for six months during her Ph.D. studies. A former Director of the Academy of Malay Studies (2020-2022), she is a lecturer and speaker in the fields of Politeness in Language, Linguistics, and Malay Language Translation, and has produced numerous writings and research in these areas. Salinah Jaafar has written many scholarly articles published in Scopus and ISI indexed journals, as well as academic books published by MAPIM. Highly dedicated to teaching and education, she is diligent and takes great pride in her career, consistently striving to provide the best quality teaching and knowledge-sharing to the community. In addition to her routine duties, Salinah Jaafar is also involved in research, publications, and participates in numerous seminars and conferences both domestically and internationally. Drawing from her experience as an administrator and management member at the University of Malaya and the Academy of Malay Studies, she is also involved in making crucial decisions when training and promoting staff, and in designing program curricula. Additionally, she is actively engaged in FRGS research in the fields of Pragmatics, Ethnic Relations, Malay Corpus Development, Computational Linguistics, and Hadith Translation. She has served as a lecturer at the University of Malaya for nearly 30 years and remains passionate and committed to enhancing the quality of her career outputs.