| Summary: | Modern linguistics requires complex studies that investigate the linguistic and stylistic features, structure and subject matter of the texts of anecdotes. The article analyses Ukrainian anecdotes as specific feature of national culture. The topicality of the article leaves no doubt since this issue is not investigated enough in Modern Linguistics and the article reveals linguistic units, which represent comic means in Ukrainian anecdotes. The article defines linguistic features of jokes, focusing on some words, which are markers of differentiation for Ukrainians focusing on some criteria, analyses linguistic units which describe notion «the other» and some difference in languages. The article considers the main relations of opposition «own and the other». The aim of our research is to draw main comic means, which represent notion «the other» in Ukrainian anecdotes. The article defines international jokes with funny situations, these jokes are about Jew, Gipsy, Georgian, Chukchi. The research of anecdotes as a special type of the text is very important nowadays for culture, literature and linguistic studies. It is necessary to investigate its topics, dynamics of its plot and characters, situations, some aspects of its linguistic features and means that reflect dichotomy «own -the other». It can be revealed in differences of national speech and in usage of some words.
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