Władysław Chłopicki is Professor at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, He is the precursor of humour studies in Poland with his book O humorze poważnie (Humour taken seriously, PAN, 1995). He is a co-editor of e.g. Humorous Discourse (De Gruyter, 2017) and Handbook of Humor Research (De Gruyter, 2024). Most recently his main focus has been humour in the public sphere (humorinpublic.eu). He is an editor of The European Journal of Humour Research and Tertium Linguistic Journal.
Jan Chovanec is Professor of English linguistics at Masaryk University in Brno, the Czech Republic, specializing in discourse analysis and socio-pragmatics. He has done extensive research on mediated discourse, including the discursive processes of interactional humour in diverse media contexts. He is the author of Pragmatics of Tense and Time in News (John Benjamins, 2014), The Discourse of Online Sportscasting (John Benjamins, 2018) and co-editor of a number of publications, including The Dynamics of Interactional Humour (John Benjamins, 2018, with Villy Tsakona) and Experiencing Digital Discourses: Multimodality, Engagement, Activism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025, with Camilla Vásquez). He is currently co-editor-in-chief of Discourse, Context & Media and serves on the editorial boards of several international journals, including Journal of Pragmatics; Internet Pragmatics and The European Journal of Humour Research.
Anastasiya Fiadotava (PhD) is a Senior Research Fellow at the Estonian Folklore Institute and the Estonian Literary Museum, Tartu. Her fields of interest include the use of humour in family communication, the spread of jokes and memes in social and mainstream media, and the reflections of current political and social issues in humour.
Liisi Laineste is a Researcher Professor at the Department of Folkloristics of the Estonian Literary Museum, where she leads the working group of humour research. Her main research object is folk humor and its online manifestations. She has published articles and edited books and journal issues on ethnic humour, internet folklore and online communication, many of which represent an interdisciplinary angle and combine folkloristics with linguistics, psychology, sociology or communication studies. She has a standing interest in digital humanities.
Carmen Maíz-Arévalo obtained her PhD in English Linguistics in 2001. She has worked at the department of English Linguistics at the Complutense University of Madrid since 2006, where she holds a position of Associate Professor. In May 2024, she was accredited as Full Professor by the Spanish National Agency of Quality and Accreditation. She teaches Pragmatics, TEFL Methodology and Intercultural Studies, among other things. With regard to her research interests, her fields are pragmatics, intercultural pragmatics and digital communication, with a special focus on speech act theory, (im)politeness and humour. She has published many articles and given numerous talks at national and international conferences in these fields. Her most recent research includes articles in the Journal of Pragmatics, Journal of Politeness Research, Internet Pragmatics and European Journal of Humor Studies, among others.
Răzvan Săftoiu is Professor at the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Letters, Transilvania University of Brașov (Romania), where he teaches courses in pragmatics, communication, and discourse analysis. He has received research grants at the University of Bucharest (2001–2003), New York State University, Albany (2005–2006) and Transilvania University of Brașov (2007–2010, 2015–2017). He has published as a single author Limbaj în acțiune (2007) and Politics through the Lens of Linguistic Analysis (2013) and co-edited, among others, the volumes Workplace Communication across Languages and Cultures (Benjamins, 2012), Persuasive Games in Political and Professional Dialogue (Benjamins, 2015) and Romanian Humor (Tertium, 2020).
