This book attempts to discuss selected but thorny issues of humor research that form the major stumbling blocks as well as challenges in humor studies at large and thus merit insightful discussion. Any discourse is action, so the text-creation process is.

• Table of contents
• A foreword on humorous discourse
• I Approaches at the essence of humorous discourse
• Humor theory: What is and what is not
• Metonymy in humour
• Conceptual integration and humor
• The dynamics of humour
• II Humor as a function of discourse
• The GTVH and humorous discourse
• Metapragmatic markers of the bona fide and non-bona fide modes of communication
• Wordplay and football: Humour in the discourse of written sports reporting
• Audience affiliation, membership categories, and the construction of humor in stand-up comedy
• Humor research and humor reception: Far away, so close
• III Computer modeling of humorous discourse
• Ontological Semantic Theory of Humor in a context of humorous discourse
• Notes on the contributors
• Index