Salvatore Attardo, Professor of Linguistics, Texas A&M University-Commerce
Salvatore Attardo is Professor of Linguistics at Texas A&M University-Commerce. He works primarily on the linguistics of humor, issues relating to implicatures, irony, and rationality, and more generally on Neo-Gricean pragmatics. He was Editor-in-Chief of HUMOR: International Journal of HumorResearch for ten years. His publications include Humorous Texts: A Semantic and Pragmatic Analysis (De Gruyter, 2001) and Understanding Language Structure, Interaction, and Variation (3rd ed., with Steven Brown and Cynthia Vigliotti; University of Michigan Press, 2014), and, as editor, TheEncyclopedia of Humor Studies (Sage, 2014) and The Handbook of Language and Humor (Routledge, 2017).
Preface List of figures and tables Part I: Humor Studies 1. Humor studies: A few definitions 2. Methodological preliminaries 3. Theories of humor and their levels 4. Incongruity and resolution 5. Semiotics of humor Part II: Humor Competence 6. The semantics of humor 7. The General Theory of Verbal Humor 8. Pragmatics of humor 9. Verbal humor Part III: Humor Performance 10. The performance of humor 11. Conversation analysis: Humor in conversation I 12. Discourse analysis: Humor in conversation II 13. Sociolinguistics of humor Part IV: Applications 14. Humor in literature 15. Humor and translation 16. Humor in the classroom 17. Conclusion Glossary References Index
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