| | | Theory of humor and practice of humor research: Editors notes and thoughts by Victor Raskin | | 1 |
| | | Psychology of humor by Willibald Ruch | | 17 |
| | | A primer for the linguistics of humor by Salvatore Attardo | | 101 |
| | | Undertaking the comparative study of humor by Christie Davies | | 157 |
| | | Humor in anthropology and folklore by Elliott Oring | | 183 |
| | | Philosophy and religion by John Morreall | | 211 |
| | | Literature and humor by Alleen Nilsen and Don Nilsen | | 243 |
| | | Humor and popular culture by Lawrence E. Mintz | | 281 |
| | | Historical views of humor by Amy Carrell | | 303 |
| | | Computational humor: Beyond the pun? by Christian F. Hempelmann | | 333 |
| | | The sociology of humor by Giselinde Kuipers | | 361 |
| | | Beyond "Wit and Persuasion"; Rhetoric, composition, and humor studies by Tarez Samra Graban | | 399 |
| | | Applications of humor: Health, the workplace, and education by John Morreall | | 449 |
| | | Humor and health by Rod A. Martin | | 479 |
| | | Humor in literature by Katrina E. Triezenberg | | 523 |
| | | Communication and humor by Dineh Davis | | 543 |
| | | Verbally expressed humor and translation by Delia Chiaro | | 569 |
| | | Cartoons: Drawn jokes? by Christian F. Hempelmann and Andrea C. Samson | | 609 |
| | | Index of authors | | 641 |
| | | Index of subjects | | 661 |