Salvatore Attardo

Salvatore Attardo

Professor of Linguistics at Texas A&M University-Commerce.

His books include Linguistic Theories of Humor (DeGruyter, 1994), Humorous Texts (DeGruyter, 2001) and Introduction to the Linguistics of Humor (OxfordUP, 2020). He edited HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research (2002-2011), the Encyclopedia of Humor Studies (Sage, 2014) and the Handbook of Language and Humor (Routledge, 2017). His latest book is Pragmatics and its applications to TESOL and SLA, (Wiley, 2021), co-authored with Lucy Pickering.

Context, the ghost of Goffman, and humor. How can we tell when we are joking?