Paradigmatic of humour.

Abstract

The notion of “Humour”(Юмор), i.e. “Humour” is seen as a social phenomenon, because applied method in the framework of the linguistic activity in general is aimed at the process of action, it is general aimed to the process of action and referred in a modern German language as the term «handlungsorientiert». As widely and fully as possible the lexical-semantic layer from the mental point of view and cognition of the German people are shown in the study of paradigmatic “Humour”. The analysis has been around 1300 linguistic elements of the semantic field of the “Humour”, in total, and more than 400 interesting (in our opinion) lexical-phraseological units are presented in the article. The main emphasis is made on the different conceptual and contextual semes of paradigmatics «Lachen/lachen» (laugh), because «lachen» as a hyperonim covers 15 verb-hyponims, 17 expressions and 28 phraseologisms, including sayings and proverbs. Such kind of clarification is demonstrated the wealth of the language and does not allow the distortion of data sources.