РЕПРЕЗЕНТАЦІЯ ГУМОРУ В ЖАРТАХ ПРО СЕКС (НА МАТЕРІАЛІ НІМЕЦЬКОЇ МОВИ)

The article is focused on the comprehensive study of the representation of humor in jokes about sex in the modern German language. The methodological basis of this scientific paper is an integrative anthropocentric approach to language. Their quantitative-qualitative distribution was carried out according to samples from works «1000 Witze zum Schlapplachen», «Kenn’ Se den schon? Die köstlichen Witze und Anekdötchen», «Rentner-Witze. Witze für den Ruhestand: Wie nennt man Menschen, die auch montags gute Laune haben? Rentner!» and https://witze.net/, https://www.wir-lieben-es-lustig.de/. These works served as a source of data for the analytical part of the study. 277 jokes about sex were interpreted and grouped into 8 conceptual classes, formed on the basis of combining humorous content according to a feature common to each class, which was established on the basis of contextual situations. According to the data of the analysis of the actual material, the fixation of the identified substantive conceptual classes shows the uneven distribution of their volumes. It was established that, according to the analyzed empirical material, jokes belonging to the conceptual class of polygamy and changing partners and sexual depravity prevail in the German language society, while the class of commercialization of sex is represented by a small number of jokes. It should be noted that the article analyzes only those jokes about sex, if the subject position in the specified humorous texts is replaced by a person. Jokes with spicy content with animals as subjects / objects of the comic, such as: “Trifft ein blinder Hase ein blindes Krokodil. Sie begrüßen sich und das Krokodil befühlt den Hasen: “Weiches Fell, lange Ohren, du musst ein Hase sein.“Der Hase: “Ja richtig“. Dann befühlt der Hase das Krokodil:“Hm ... kurze Beine, großes Maul, langer Schwanz, du musst ein Italiener sein” were not analyzed.