The chapters of the book are geared towards comprehending human interactions, expounding dialogism, challenging dominant narratives, and in the meantime, deconstructing misinformation and power structures prevalent in text and talk. In its essence, the book is multidisciplinary, as it employs various critical approaches, rich conceptual frameworks, and sound methodologies from a variety of schools of thought and disciplines to explain the interplay between language and power, humor and laughter, literature and cinema, as well as poetry and meaning-creation.

The contributors, all of...