The Routledge Handbook of Language and Humor
Routledge Handbooks in Linguistics Series

TheRoutledge Handbook of Language and Humor presents the first ever comprehensive, in-depth treatment of all the sub-fields of the linguistics of humor, broadly conceived as the intersection of the study of language and humor. The reader will find a thorough historical, terminological, and theoretical introduction to the field, as well as detailed treatments of the various approaches to language and humor. Deliberately comprehensive and wide-ranging, the handbook includes chapter-long treatments on the traditional topics covered by language and humor (e.g., teasing, laughter, irony, psycholinguistics, discourse analysis, the major linguistic theories of humor, translation) but also cutting-edge treatments of internet humor, cognitive linguistics, relevance theoretic, and corpus-assisted models of language and humor. Some chapters, such as the variationist sociolinguistcs, stylistics, and politeness are the first-ever syntheses of that particular subfield. Clusters of related chapters, such as conversation analysis, discourse analysis and corpus-assisted analysis allow multiple perspectives on complex trans-disciplinary phenomena. This handbook is an indispensable reference work for all researchers interested in the interplay of language and humor, within linguistics, broadly conceived, but also in neighboring disciplines such as literary studies, psychology, sociology, anthropology, etc. The authors are among the most distinguished scholars in their fields.

1. Introduction

Salvatore Attardo

2. An Overview of Humor Theory

Cristina Larkin-Galinanes

3. Humor Universals

Annarita Guidi

4. Key Terms in the Field of Humor

Christian F. Hempelmann

5. Linguistics and Humor Theory

Salvatore Attardo and Victor Raskin

6. The Isotopy Disjunction Model

Amal Aljared

7. Puns and Tacit Linguistic Knowledge

Debra Aarons

8. Puns: Taxonomy and Phonology

Christian F. Hempelmann and Tristan Miller

9. Script-Based Semantic and Ontological Semantic Theories of Humor

Victor Raskin

10. The General Theory of Verbal Humor

Salvatore Attardo

11. Humor and Narrative

Wladyslaw Chlopicki

12. Humor and Stylistics

Paul Simpson and Derek Bousfield

13. Humor and Pragmatics

Salvatore Attardo

14. Relevance-Theoretic Treatments of Humor

Francisco Yus

15. Teasing

Michael Haugh

16. Politeness, Teasing, and Humor

Maria Shardakova

17. Irony and Sarcasm

Herbert L. Colston

18. Cognitive Linguistics and Humor Research

Geert Brône

19. Psycholinguistic Approaches to Humor

Belem G. López and Jyotsna Vaid

20. Neurolinguistics of Humor

Hsueh-Chih Chen, Yu-Chen Chan, Ru-Huei Dai, Yi-Jun Liao, and Cheng-Hao Tu

21. Conversation Analysis of Humor

Phillip Glenn and Elizabeth Holt

22. Functionalist discourse analysis of humor

Stephanie Schnurr and Barbara Plester

23. Corpus-assisted studies of humor and laughter-talk

Alan Partington

24. Laughter

Jürgen Trouvain and Khiet P. Truong

25. Failed Humor

Nancy Bell

26. Humor Support and Mode Adoption

Juanita M. Whalen and Penny M. Pexman

27. Humor markers

Christian Burgers and Margot van Mulken

28. Prosodic and Multimodal Markers of Humor

Elisa Gironzetti

29. Humor and Translation

Delia Chiaro

30. Audiovisual Translation of Humor

Chiara Bucaria

31. Humor and Second Language Development

Nancy Bell

32. Computational Treatments of Humor

Julia Taylor

33. Sociolinguistic Approaches to Humor

Catherine E. Davies

34. Genres of humor

Villy Tsakona

35. Online and Internet Humor

Eric Weitz

Salvatore Attardo is Dean of the College of Humanities, Social Sciences and Arts at Texas A&M University–Commerce, USA. His publications include two monographs on humor, two collections of essays on the linguistics of humor, and the Encyclopedia of Humor Studies. He was Editor-in-Chief of HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research for 10 years.