Existential premises for the generation of a specifically linguistic theory of laughter are revealed. On the one
hand, the language is regarded not solely as a verbal constituent of laughable texts, on the other hand, the laughter
expression is understood not only as a modal epiphenomenon of the locution. The author adheres to the ontological
(existential-essential) view of language and culture including laughter culture problems. A special methodological
accent is made on the need to study the laughter origins in the being itself and its lingual manifestations. The language
is postulated as an existential way of human existence in the world. Verbalization is recognized as one of the
potentialities for language manifestation (along with silence, gesture, facial expression in a wide sense) while laughter
is considered to be a modus of human existence and a type of world-outlook.
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