Explorations in Humor Studies

Marcin Kuczok, PhD, works in the Department of Contrastive Studies of the Institute of English at the University of Silesia, Poland. His research interests include English-Polish contrastive linguistics and cognitive semantics, with particular emphasis on conceptual metaphor and metonymy theory, conceptual integration theory, and the theory of the linguistic picture of the world. He has also devoted a lot of work to axiolinguistics, the language of values, religious discourse, and to the writings of John Henry Newman.Anna Stwora, MA, is a PhD candidate in the Department of Specialized Languages of the Institute of English at the University of Silesia, Poland. Her research interests oscillate around the multimodal discourse of advertising, especially in its metaphorical and humorous dimensions. Her work also looks at specialized registers viewed from the psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic standpoint, cognitivism, communication studies, and contrastive linguistics. Mariola Swierkot, MA, is a PhD candidate in the Department of American and Canadian Studies of the Institute of English Cultures and Literatures at the University of Silesia, Poland. Her academic interests include American history, literature, and culture, especially that of the 20th and 21st centuries, and oscillate around non-fiction, theory of culture, and identity discourses.