Jan Chovanec

Jan Chovanec is Professor of English Linguistics at the Department of English and American Studies, Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic. He has published extensively in the fields of media discourse, sports broadcasting, digital communication and humour. He is the author of The Discourse of Online Sportscasting (Benjamins 2018) and co-editor of several volumes, most recently The Dynamics of Interactional Humor (with Villy Tsakona, Benjamins 2018) and Analyzing Digital Discourses: Between Convergence and Controversy (Bloomsbury 2022, with Marjut Johansson and Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen). He has also edited several special issues on humour (Creating and Sharing Public Humour across Traditional and New Media; Journal of Pragmatics 2021, with Marta Dynel; and Humor and Intertextuality, European Journal of Humour Research 2020, with Villy Tsakona).