Cringe Humor on Screen and in Digital Media Pragmatic Perspectives

Virginie Iché

is Associate Professor of English Linguistics at Université de Montpellier Paul-Valéry, France. She authored
L’esthétique du jeu dans les
Alice
de Lewis Carroll
(2015) and co-edited (with S. Sorlin) 
The Rhetoric of Literary Communication
(2022).

Célia Schneebeli
is Associate Professor of English Linguistics at the Université Bourgogne Europe, France. She researches online discourse and discourse in interaction from a pragmatic perspective. She has published on impoliteness, humor, stance-taking, and image use in digital discourse.

Lynn Blin
is Honorary Associate Professor in Linguistics and Translation at Université de Montpellier Paul-Valéry, France. She has published work on Alice Munro and Lydia Davis, and more recently on the ethics of laughter in the works of Ricky Gervais, Louis C.K. and David Sedaris.