Marta Dynel

Marta Dynel, Ph.D., is an assistant professor (adiunkt) in the Department of Pragmatics in the Institute of English at the University of Åò;dÅo. She has published internationally in linguistic journals (e.g. Journal of Pragmatics and Lodz Papers in Pragmatics) and volumes (e.g. for Peter Lang and Cambridge Scholars Press). Her research interests are focused primarily on pragmatic, cognitive and sociolinguistic mechanisms of humour, as well as on the processes of social influence and the rhetoric of advertising. She has recently published a book titled Humorous Garden-Paths: A Pragmatic-Cognitive Study (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009).