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37
Citations
12471
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6067
National Ranking
2894

Overview

Salvatore Attardo is affiliated with East Texas A&M in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology, arts and humanities, and social sciences, with a strong focus on social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, literature and literary theory, language and linguistics, and human-computer interaction.

Attardo's work concentrates on several key topics, including humor studies and applications, language, metaphor, and cognition, digital communication and language, linguistics and discourse analysis, discourse analysis in language studies, language, discourse, communication strategies, and media influence and health.

Notable publications by Attardo include the following papers:

  • On the order of processing of humorous tweets with visual and verbal elements, 2020, Internet Pragmatics
  • Memes, memeiosis, and memetic drift: Cheryl's Chichier She Shed, 2020, Media Linguistics
  • Comedic convergence: Humor responses to verbal irony in text messages, 2023, Language Sciences
  • Satire, honey and tears: how The Onion and The Babylon Bee do satire, 2025, Humor - International Journal of Humor Research
  • 2019-2020 Reviewers-Consultants 2019-2020, 2020, Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale

The scientist has also published at least one book titled The Linguistics of Humor, released in 2020 by Oxford University Press.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Attardo include:

  • Shelby Miller
  • María Simarro Vázquez
  • Nabiha El Khatib
  • Phillip Hamrick
  • Andrew A. Coolidge

Attardo's research has appeared repeatedly in several publication venues, with multiple contributions to:

  • Humor - International Journal of Humor Research
  • Internet Pragmatics
  • Media Linguistics
  • Language Sciences
  • Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale

Best Publications

  • Linguistic theories of humor

    Salvatore Attardo

  • Script theory revis(it)ed: joke similarity and joke representation model

    Salvatore Attardo;Victor Raskin

  • Humorous Texts: A Semantic and Pragmatic Analysis

    Salvatore Attardo

  • Irony as relevant inappropriateness

    Salvatore Attardo

  • Multimodal markers of irony and sarcasm

    Salvatore Attardo;Jodi Eisterhold;Jennifer Hay;Isabella Poggi

  • The semantic foundations of cognitive theories of humor

    Salvatore Attardo

  • Violation of conversational maxims and cooperation: The case of jokes

    Salvatore Attardo

  • Script oppositions and logical mechanisms: Modeling incongruities and their resolutions

    Salvatore Attardo;Christian F. Hempelmann;Sara Di Maio

  • A primer for the linguistics of humor

    Salvatore Attardo

  • Reactions to irony in discourse: evidence for the least disruption principle

    Jodi Eisterhold;Salvatore Attardo;Diana Boxer

  • Toward an empirical verification of the General Theory of Verbal Humor

    Willibald Ruch;Salvatore Attardo;Victor Raskin

  • Failed humor: Issues in non-native speakers' appreciation and understanding of humor

    Nancy Bell;Salvatore Attardo

  • Jokes as a text type

    Salvatore Attardo;Jean-Charles Chabanne

  • Non-literalness and non-bona-fîde in language: An approach to formal and computational treatments of humor

    Jonathan D. Raskin;Salvatore Attardo

  • Encyclopedia of humor studies

    Salvatore Attardo

  • Understanding Language Structure, Interaction, and Variation: An Introduction to Applied Linguistics and Sociolinguistics for Nonspecialists

    Steven Brown;Salvatore Attardo

  • Introduction: the pragmatics of humor

    Salvatore Attardo

  • The Linguistics of Humor

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  • The linear organization of jokes: analysis of two thousand texts

    Salvatore Attardo;Donalee Hughes Attardo;Paul Baltes;Marnie Jo Petray

  • Prosodic and multimodal markers of humor in conversation

    Salvatore Attardo;Lucy Pickering;Amanda A Baker

  • Locutionary and perlocutionary cooperation : The perlocutionary cooperative principle

    Salvatore Attardo

  • Translation and Humour

    Salvatore Attardo

Frequent Co-Authors

Willibald Ruch
Willibald Ruch University of Zurich
Amanda L. Baker
Amanda L. Baker University of Newcastle Australia
Jennifer Hay
Jennifer Hay University of Canterbury
Frank Boers
Frank Boers University of Western Ontario

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