ISHS Books and News

Books and News

ISHS Members and other scholars have several books in print, including volumes in the Humor Research Series, published by Mouton DeGruyter. This books page provides links to our members' publications, along with ordering information, and to the Society's Newsletter Archive.

Linguistic Theories of Humor (1994)
Author: Salvatore Attardo

Techniques of Satire (1994)
Author: Emil A. Draitser

The Sense of Humor (1998/2007)
Editor: Willibald Ruch

Jokes and their Relation to Society (1998)
Author: Christie Davies

The Basic Humor Process (1999)
Author: Robert L. Latta

Humorous Texts (2001)
Author: Salvatore Attardo

Good Humor, Bad Taste (2006)
Author: Giselinde Kuipers

We are Not Amused: Failed Humor in Interaction (2015)
Author: Nancy Bell

The Primer of Humor Research (2008)
Editor: Victor Raskin

Humorous Discourse (2017)
Editors: Wladyslaw Chlopicki & Dorota Brzozowska

The Language of Comic Narratives (2008)
Author: Isabel Ermida

Humor and Horror (2022)
Author: Lena Straßburger

The Age of Irreverence: A New History of Laughter in China
Christopher Rea
University of California Press

Beyond a Joke: The Limits of Humour
Sharon Lockyer & Michael Pickering (Eds.)
Palgrave McMillian

Cognitive Linguistics and Humor Research
Geert Brȏne, Kurt Feyaerts, & Tony Veale
DeGruyter

Comic Relief
John Morreall
Wiley-Blackwell

The Comprehension of Jokes
Graeme Ritchie
Routledge

Cracking Up: American Humor in Time of Conflict
Paul Lewis
Univ. of Chicago Press

De Gruyter Handbook of Humor Studies
Thomas E. Ford, Wladyslaw Chlopicki, & Giselinde Kuipers, Eds.
De Gruyter

Encyclopedia of Humor Studies
Salvatore Attardo (Ed.)
Sage

Encyclopedia of 20th-Century American Humor
Alleen Pace Nilsen
& Don L. F. Nilsen
Greenwood Press

Engaging Humor
Elliott Oring
Univ. of Illinois Press

Exploring the Sociopragmatics of Online Humor
Villy Tsakona
John Benjamins

Farce
Jessica Milner Davis
Routledge

Ha!: The Science of When We Laugh and Why
Scott Weems
Hachette Book Group

How about Never is Never Good for You? My Life in Cartoons
Bob Mankoff
McMillian Picador

The Humor Code
Peter McGraw & Joel Warner
Simon & Schuster

Humor in the Classroom
Nancy Bell & Anne Pomerantz
Routledge

Humor in Interaction
Neal R. Norrick & Delia Chiaro (Editors)
John Benjamins
50% discount available to ISHS members.

Humor: The Lighter Path to Resilience and Health
Paul E. McGhee
AuthorHouse

Humor 2.0: How the Internet Changed Humor
Salvatore Attardo
Anthem Press

Importance of Not Being Earnest
Wallace Chafe
John Benjamins
50% hardcover discount for ISHS members.

Interactional Humor: Multimodal Design and Negotiation
Beatrice Priego-Valverde, Ed.
De Gruyter

Jokes and Targets
Christie Davies
Indiana Univ. Press
30% discount available to ISHS members.

Joking Asides
Elliott Oring
Utah State Univ. Press

Kids who Laugh
Louis Franzini
Square One

Kvetching and Shpritzing:
Jewish Humor in American Culture
Joe Dorinson
McFarland Books

Lowering the Bar: Lawyer Jokes and Legal Culture
Marc Galanter
Univ. of Wisconsin Press
30% discount available to ISHS members.

The Mirror of Laughter
Alexander Kozintsev
Routledge
25% discount available to ISHS members.

The Mirth of Nations
Christie Davies
Routledge

The Multimodal Performance of Conversational Humor
Elisa Gironzetti
John Benjamins

Muslims and Humour: Essays on Comedy, Joking, and Mirth
in Contemporary Islamic Contexts
Bernard Schweizer, Lina Molokotos-Liederman, & Yasmin Amin, Eds.
Bristol University Press