Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: Section I - Towards a Definition of Miscommunication: A Theoretical Approach -- 1. MaCHT - Miscommunication as CHance Theory: Toward a Unitary Theory of -- Communication and Miscommunication, L. Anolli 3 -- 2. Semantic Transparency, Semantic Opacity, States of Affairs, Mental States and -- Speech Acts, A. Reboul 43 -- Section II - Pretending to Communicate: Deception, Seduction and -- Equivocation -- 3. Deceptive Miscommunication Theory (DeMiT): A New Model for the Analysis -- of Deceptive Communication, L. Anolli, M. Balconi and R. Ciceri 73 -- 4. Seductive Communication: Paradoxical Exhibition, Obliquity and Non Verbal -- Synchronization, R. Ciceri 101 -- 5. The Meaning of Expression: Views from Art and Other Sources, -- J.-M. Fernndez-Dols, P. Carrera and C. Casado 117 -- Section III - Communicate to Pretend: Irony and Humor -- 6. "You're a Real Genius!": Irony as a Miscommunication Design, L. Anolli, -- M.G. Infantino and R. Ciceri 135 -- 7. Humor and Irony in Interaction: From Mode Adoption to Failure of Detection, -- S. Attardo 159 -- 8. The Risks and Rewards of Ironic Communication, R. W. Gibbs and -- H.L. Colston 181 -- Section IV - Communicate in Pretending: Computer Mediated Communication -- 9. Communicating in CMC: Making Order Out of Miscommunication, G. Riva 197 -- 10. Cyber-Attraction: The Emergence of Computer-Mediated Communication in -- the Development of Interpersonal Relationships, F. Mantovani 229 -- 11. Ambiguous Self-Identification and Sincere Communication in CMC, -- E.A. Mabry 247.

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