| Section 1. THE LAUGHTER IN THE POINT OF INTERSECTIONOF THE THINKING AND THE LANGUAGE
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| Afanasyev A., Vasilenko I. The Laughter and Rationality
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| Yarosh L. The Laughter as a Border between Profaned and Sakred
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| Grisova I. The Individuality and the Laughter Culture
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| Mukhutdinov O. Humor and the Philosophy
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| Demyanov V. The Ridiculous in the Philosophy
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| Okorokov V. The Laughter and the Metaphor (Sense Translation Logic)
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| Kebuladse V. The Phenomenology of the Black Humor
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| Pomogayev N. The Phenomenological Research of the Absurd Humor
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| Ivanova-Georgiyevskaya N. Irony as a Universal Reading Strategy
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| Vysotskaya O. The Laughter as a Condition for the Sense Communication (the Analysis oh the Phenomenon on an Example of the Kharms’s Works)
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| Kislov A. The Laughter “Language Games”: Substitution of the Rules and the Knowing Effect
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| Karpenko Y. People Names Giving as the Subject and the Mean of Humor
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|   Section 2. The LAUGHTER IN THE SOCIAL-CULTURAL CONTEXT | 
| Vershina V., Mikhaylyuk A. The Ridiculous in the context of unridiculous
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| Bogachov A. Other Beeng or Cynicism Extremes and the Smiling
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| Odokhovskaya I. The Laughter as a Self-Reflection and a Way in beyond Mirror
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| Bakanurskiy A., Sprinsyan V. Game as a Way of the Ironical Mounting of the Life
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| Kusmin A., Kusmina M. The Symbolic Laughter Functions in the Antic Culture
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| Kukharuk T. Xenophan “Philosophical Joke Theatre”
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| Kulik A. Pastish as a Concept of the Performance Theories of the Second Half of the XX Century
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| Golubovich I. “Flash Mob” as a Cultural and Life Strategy
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| Besnisko V. The Political Anecdote as Unmasking of Political Myth Form
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| Rygina L. The National PR-Anecdote Peculiarities
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| Vysotskiy O. The Laughter as a Politic Legitimation Mean
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| Golosubov A. The Laughter Ideology in the Postchristian World
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| Zolotariova O. Odessa Carnival and the Traditional Spiritual Values
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| Basin E., Skidanova V. Junevile Subculture as an Example of the Laughter Creation
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|   Section 3. THE COMICAL IN THE LITERATURE | 
| Kolesnik O. The Phenomenon of the Polite Laughter (on an Example of Shakespeare’s Dramas)
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| Zinovyeva T. To the Problem on the Comic Element in the Ukrainian Vertep Performances Specificity
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| Kashuba M. “Ivan Meleshko Oration” as an Example of the Political Satire in the Beginning of the XVII c.
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| Gribkova Y. Ivan Kotlyarevskiy Creation in the Pomantis Irony Context
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| Baktybayeva A. On Some Kasakhian Laughter Culture Aspects
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| Nalbantova Y. The Laughter as an Repression (Woman Theme in Dobr Voynikov Comedy “Kryvorasbranata Civilisatia”)
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| Korolkova O. Fool and a Laughter: ambivalence of the Laughter in the German Literature (from Renaissance to Romanticism)
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| Miropolkaya Y. The Comical in the Absurd Fiction
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| Uliura A. Gender marked Disguise as a Comical (on the Classical Russian Literarture
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| Pankov A. Daniil Kharms as a Representative of the Russian Laughter and Religion-Philosophical Tradition
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| Pankova K. Obscenities Carnival Function in Anecdotes and Literature Texts
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|   Section 4. TRANSLATIONS | 
| Wischke M. Dass „ihr [...] als Lachende, irgendwann einmal alle metaphysische Trösterei zum Teufel schickt“. Nietzsches
 tragische Weltansicht im Kontext seiner Sprachauffassung (translated from German by O.Korolkova)
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| Krüger H.-P. Vom Spiel und seinen Grenzen im Lachen und Weinen zum souveränen Lächeln (translated from German by
 O.Korolkova)
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