SALVATORE ATTARDO is Professor of Linguistics at Texas A&M-Commerce, USA. He is editor of The Encyclopedia of Humor Studies (2014) and The Handbook of Language and Humor (2017) and co-author of Understanding Language Structure, Interaction and Variation, Third Edition (2014). He has published 12 books and over 100 articles. His latest book is The Linguistics of Humor: An Introduction (2020).
LUCY PICKERING is Professor of Applied Linguistics and Director of the Applied Linguistics Laboratory at Texas A&M-Commerce, USA. She is the author of Discourse Intonation: A discourse-pragmatic approach to teaching the pronunciation of English (2018), co-editor of Language Learning, Discourse & Cognition (2018), co-editor of Talking at Work (2016), and co-author of English Communication for International Teaching Assistants (2013).

Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1. The semantics and pragmatics interface
Chapter 2. The language teaching and Pragmatics interface
Chapter 3. Speech Acts
Chapter 4. Principle of Cooperation
Chapter 5. Politeness
Chapter 6. Information structure and functional sentence perspective
Chapter 7. Pragmatic Markers, Indexicality and Stance
Chapter 8. Interactional Sociolinguistics
Chapter 9. Research Design in TESOL-related Studies in Pragmatics
Chapter 10. Metapragmatics
Conclusion: The Frontier