Autor: Lucy Pickering

SALVATORE ATTARDO is Professor of Linguistics at Texas A&M-Commerce, USA. He is editor of The Encyclopedia of Humor Studies (2014) and The Handbook of Language and Humor (2017) and co-author of Understanding Language Structure, Interaction and Variation, Third Edition (2014). He has published 12 books and over 100 articles. His latest book is The Linguistics of Humor: An Introduction (2020). LUCY PICKERING is Professor of Applied Linguistics and Director of the Applied Linguistics Laboratory at Texas A&M-Commerce, USA. She is the author of Discourse Intonation: A discourse-pragmatic approach to teaching the pronunciation of English (2018), co-editor of Language Learning, Discourse & Cognition (2018), co-editor of Talking at Work (2016), and co-author of English Communication for International Teaching Assistants (2013).