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Humour and irony are important parts of human interaction, but it is only recently that these issues have received their deserved attention. With the paradigmatic work, Irony and Humor: From pragmatics to discourse, readers are given an excellent overview of the most important linguistic research carried out by committed researchers in both fields. — Annette Jørgensen, University of Bergen

Going from written forms of humor (i.e. cartoons) that allow various interpretations depending on the context and on the interlocutor, to interactive humor or humor in the media, the book Irony and humor: From pragmatics to discourse covers a wide range of comic texts and most importantly, opens ways to new research on humor from other perspectives not so often employed by researchers in this field: neuro-psychology or argumentation. — Razvan Saftoiu, Transilvania University of Braxov, in Language and Dialogue Vol. 4:2 (2014)

An up-to-date overview of two of the most difficult and elusive fields in the realm of Pragmatics. — Salvador Pons Bordería, University of Valencia

This book provides its readers with a complete and holistic overview of linguistic research on irony and humour by looking at the object of study from varying perspectives, i.e. pragmatics, cognition and argumentation theory. Based on corpora composed of different languages and text types, this volume summarizes in one solid piece of work theoretical and descriptive achievements of 20 years of research in the field. — Óscar Loureda, University of Heidelberg