About the Author

Nancy D. Bell, Washington State University, USA

Reviews

"The present volume constitutes a comprehensive account of failed humor and its relation to miscommunication in general. lt goes into significant detail and is provided with excellent conversational extracts as illustrations. [...] 1 find this book not only extremely instructive, clear, and convincing, but also entertaining, with a number of well-chosen examples illustrating the account. lt is highly recommendable by giving new insights into an area that is very little explored."
Anna-Brita Stenström in: Functions of Language 233 (2016), 384--390