Salvatore Attardo, Ph.D., is Professor and Head of the Department of Literature and Languages at Texas A&M University-Commerce and at present is serving as Interim Dean for the College of Arts and Sciences.� He holds degrees from The Catholic University of Milan (Doctorate, French Language and Literature, 1986) and Purdue University (Ph.D., Linguistics/English, 1991).� He has published two books on the linguistics of humor, and he is also the Editor-in-Chief of HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research . �He has published extensively in pragmatics and semantics, primarily on issues relating to implicatures, irony, rationality and Neo-Gricean Pragmatics.� His other areas of… interest are in sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics, and computational semantics.