The main objective of this article is to list and briefly characterise several semantic and
pragmatic types of verbal humour, primarily those which cannot be reduced to (canned) …

Most of us laugh at something funny multiple times during a typical day. Humor serves
multiple purposes, and although there is a sizable and expanding research literature on the …

Research in the areas of second language (L2) pragmatics and of conversational humor has
increased in recent decades, resulting in a strong base of knowledge from which applied …

This essay considers the prevalent but underresearched phenomenon of humorous Internet
memes by focusing on Advice Animal image macros, conceptualized as an internally …

This book offers fresh perspectives on untruthfulness entailed in various forms of irony,
deception and humour, which have so far constituted independent foci of linguistic and …

Humor in the Classroom provides practical, research-based answers to questions that
educational researchers and language teachers might have about the social and cognitive …

This book offers a comprehensive account of the audiovisual translation (AVT) of humour,
bringing together insights from translation studies and humour studies to outline the key …

This paper takes as its bedrock a neo-Gricean definition of the trope of irony, championing
two essential conditions for diagnosing its presence: overt untruthfulness (or pretence) …

This theoretical essay addresses a number of methodological problems pertinent to
linguistic research on film discourse. First of all, attention is paid to the interdependence …

This theoretical paper addresses the (im) politeness of swear words. The primary objective
is to account for their nature and functions in anonymous Internet communication …