Danyluk I. The concept "laugh" in Ukrainian artistic discourse at the beginning of the 21st century

On the basis of extensive factual material (card-index has 10,000 units) semantic and structural features of the language means represented concept "laugh" have been investigated, their role in the addresser-recipient relations, communication strategies and tactics in fiction has been defined, the specific features of their verbalization in remarks and replica of drama have been researched, associative and imaginative potential and features of compatibility have been analyzed; the functional load of linguistic units, its representation in prose texts (incentive-axiological, contact-information, function of forming an image of internal communicators; stylistic, figurative evaluation function), drama (inneraxiological and emotionally expressive function - in replicas, communicative-informational and destructive-decry function - in the remarks) and poetry (idiostylistic, expressive, creative function) of the beginning of XXI century have been analyzed