The Age of Irreverence: A New History of Laughter in China
Christopher Rea
University of California Press
International Society for Humor Studies Resources
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
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
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
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
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
Jokes and Targets
Christie Davies
Indiana Univ. Press
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
The Mirror of Laughter
Alexander Kozintsev
Routledge
The Mirth of Nations
Christie Davies
Routledge
Mocking the Age: The Later Novels of Philip Roth
Elaine B. Safer
SUNY Press
The Power of Laughter
Eric Weitz
Carysfort Press
Practically Joking
Moira Marsh
Utah State Univ. Press
The
Psychology of Humor
Rod A. Martin & Thomas Ford
Academic Press/Elsevier
Understanding Humor in Japan
Jessica Milner Davis (Ed.)
Wayne State Univ. Press
Satire, Humor, and Environmental Crisis
Massih Zekavat & Tabea Shpeel
Routledge
Writing Humor: Creativity and the Comic Mind
Mary Ann Rishel
Wayne State Univ. Press