GERMAN SOCIO-POLITICAL JOKE IN THE LINGUOCULTUROLOGICAL ASPECT
This article deals with the socio-political joke from the point of view of their linguoculturological characteristics. The aim of the study is to identify language techniques to create a comic effect, as well as cultural values and mentality of the Germans. The article presents the most striking examples of German jokes, selected by the method of continuous sampling from various collections and the Internet sites, and provides a linguoculturological analysis of each of them.