Jan Chovanec
Proposed title: Digital humour as a form of grassroots political commentary
Jan Chovanec is Professor of English linguistics at Masaryk University in Brno, the Czech Republic, specializing in discourse analysis and pragmatics. He has done research on various socio-pragmatic aspects of digital humour in mass media and social media contexts. He is the author of Pragmatics of Tense and Time in News (2014), The Discourse of Online Sportscasting (2018) and co-editor of a number of publications, including Representing the Other in European Media Discourses (2017), The Dynamics of Interactional Humour (2018) and Analyzing Digital Discourses: Between Convergence and Controversy (2021). He serves on the editorial board of the journals Internet Pragmatics and Journal of Pragmatics and is Associate Editor of Discourse, Context & Media.