Bridging the Humor Barrier

Introduction

John Rucynski Jr. and Caleb Prichard

Part 1: Humor Competence Development Outside the Class

Chapter 1:"Working Backwards from Funny: Preparing Language Learners to Use Humor in Intercultural Encounters"

Anne Pomerantz

Chapter 2:"Humor Competency: The Role of Sociopragmatic Knowledge in Expressions of Humor in Intercultural Interactions"

Jules Winchester

Chapter 3:"Feeling Inadequate: Lessons from Cross-Cultural Adaptation to Help Learners Get over Inadequacies in Humor Competency"

Maria Ramirez de Arellano

Part 2: Integrated Humor Instruction

Chapter 4:"Humor-Integrated Language Learning (HILL): Teaching with and about Humor"

Mohammad Ali Heidari-Shahreza

Chapter 5:"Junior High English Textbook Interactional Humor: Pragmatic Possibilities"

Scott Gardner

Chapter 6:"Reading Jokes in English: How English Language Learners Appreciate and Comprehend Humor"

Nadezda Pimenova

Part 3: Explicit Humor Competency Training

Chapter 7:"Humor Competency Training for Sarcasm and Jocularity"

Caleb Prichard and John Rucynski Jr.

Chapter 8:"Theory, Content Knowledge, Input, Output: Elements in the Teaching and Learning of Humor Competence"

Richard Hodson

Chapter 9:"Using Diaries to Research and Develop Humor Competence in a Second Language"

Maria Petkova

Chapter 10:"Training English Language Learners to Recognize English Satirical News"

John Rucynski Jr. and Caleb Prichard