Władysław Chłopicki is Professor of Linguistics at the Department of English Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. His academic interests include interdisciplinary humour research in the context of cultural studies, cognitive linguistics, linguistic pragmatics and narratology as well as translation studies. He has authored numerous articles mainly related to humour studies and a Polish-language monograph on humour research. He has also co-edited more than a dozen monographs on humour, inter-cultural communication, communication styles and linguistics, including the series Humour and Culture (by Tertium Publishers). www.orcid.org/0000-0002-4675-4102