Salvatore Attardo holds a PhD in English/Linguistics from Purdue University and was professor of Linguistics at Youngstown State University, between 1992 an 2007. In 2007 he became chair of the department of Literature and Languages at the University of Texas A&M at Commerce. In 2010, he became interim Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. He has authored two monographs (Linguistic Theories of Humor, 1994, and Humorous Texts, 2001, both published by Mouton De Gruyter) and a sociolinguistics textbook, coauthored with Steven Brown (Understanding Language Structure, Interaction and Variation, University of Michigan Press 2000, second edition 2005). He co-edited a book New Approaches to the Linguistics of Humor, Editura Academica, Galati, Rumenia, in 2007. He has edited special issues of the Journal of Pragmatics (2003) and Pragmatics and Cognition (2013). He has published more than one hundred articles and book reviews on semantics, pragmatics, computational linguistics, and humor research. For ten years, he was the editor-in-chief of HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research, where is currently editor-at-large. In 2014, he edited the Encyclopedia of Humor Studies (Sage) and is currently editing the Handbook of Language and Humor, for Routledge.
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