This edited book brings together chapters on various linguistic aspects of humour in different domains and contexts, with emphasis on how linguistic elements activate sensations of the comic. The authors explore theoretical postulations on the comic and empirical representations from different textual sources in different media and from different regions of the world, including integrative stylistic approaches to humour in African, European and American written texts, examinations of social media and political humour in Nigeria, Cameroon and Zimbabwe, pragmatics and humorous stance-taking, incongruity as comedy in works of fiction, among others. This book will be of interest to academics and students of Linguistics, Stylistics, Communications and Media Studies, and Humour Studies.weiterlesen