Author: Salvatore Attardo

The book shows how humor has changed since the advent of the internet: new genres, new contexts, and new audiences. The book provides a guide to su...

Linguistic Theories of Humor appeared thirty years ago. It attracted a lot of attention and ended up being one of the most quoted books in the lin...

A concise introduction to the field of theoretical pragmatics and its applications in second language acquisition and English-language instruction ...

This book is the first comprehensive and systematic introduction to the linguistics of humor. Salvatore Attardo takes a broad approach to the topic...