Indeed a dynamic collection, this volume presents a view of humor from a number of disparate perspectives. It is a useful and well-balanced collection of pragmatic approaches illuminating the multifaceted nature of humour. The organisation of the volume into oral face-to-face and electronically mediated humorous interactions enables the reader to engage with both the striking similarities but also the differences engendered by the choice of modality. Bringing together philosophical, pragmatic and sociolinguistic approaches to humorous phenomena, while developing theoretical perspectives using case studies, the volume is a worthy contribution to a burgeoning and complex field of enquiry.

- Delia Chiaro, University of Bologna, President of the International Society of Humor Studies,

A significant contribution to the study of humor performance (as opposed to competence) within a broad interactionist framework. Applications to a variety of genres, contexts, and situations mean that the book will be of interest to most researchers in humor studies.

- Salvatore Attardo, Texas A&M University-Commerce,

The volume should be read by humour scholars and even humour producers, as it reunites valuable insights from different theoretical perspectives (pragmatics, sociolinguistics, ethnolinguistics, philosophy, etc.). The well-balanced and coherent construction of the volume highlights the importance of broadening the notion of interaction in humour studies: according to Bakhtin’s dialogic principle, any communicative form, be it written or oral, presupposes an interaction between producer/speaker and receiver/hearer.

- Mihaela-Viorica Constantinescu, University of Bucharest, in Language and Dialogue 10:2 (2020),