doi:10.1515/humor-2015-0138engRuiz-Moneva, M.A.Leonor Ruiz Gurillo and M. Belén Alvarado Ortega, eds. 2013. Irony and Humor: From Pragmatics to Discourse. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 270 pp.ART-2016-106214Throughout the history of literary criticism the relationship between humor and irony has been a recurrent topic of interest, rooted as much in classical works tike Aristotle''s Art of rhetoric or Cicero''s De oratore as in the more recent contributions of scholars such as George Meredith 1956 (1877) and Henri Bergson 1956 (1900). Moreover throughout the twentieth century it was analyzed from a variety of literary and pragmatic perspectives. The book edited by Ruiz Gurillo and Alvarado Ortega sits therefore within a rich and longstanding tradition, while supplying substantial work that derives from the most influential areas of current linguistic research. Based on the investigations of irony and humor being made by the GRIALE group, it offers the reader interesting and updated contributions to trends of current research...2016http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/9844210.1515/humor-2015-0138http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/98442oai:zaguan.unizar.es:98442Humor-International Journal Of Humor Research 29, 1 (2016), 149-151All rights reservedhttp://www.europeana.eu/rights/rr-f/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess