Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Transcription conventions for the Greek oral data and its translation -- Introduction -- 1. Context in humor research -- 2. Humor and metapragmatics -- 3. Genres with/and humor -- 4. Towards a "contextualized" theory of humor -- 5. Teaching about humor within a critical literacy framework -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- Subject Index -- Author Index