The Linguistics of Laughter examines what speakers try to achieve by producing ‘laughter-talk’ (the talk preceding and eliciting an episode of laughter) and

Explores how humor can be explained across the various sub-disciplines of linguistics, in order to aid communication.

So this English professor comes into class and starts talking about the textual organization of jokes, the taxonomy of puns, the relations between the linguisti

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Humor presents the first ever comprehensive, in-depth treatment of all the sub-fields of the linguistics of humor, broadl