MECHANISMS OF LANGUAGE REPRESENTATION OF MAINCHARACTERISTICS OF LAUGHTER AS NONVERBAL REACTION
In this article we present the analysis of set phrases with “laugh” as a key element, and an attempt to model, on the one hand, the mechanisms of main (physical, communicative and functional) characteristics of laughter, and on the other hand - the imagery typical of native English speakers. A thorough analysis of dictionary definitions gives the primary clue to the associative ties. The phrases under analysis are not numerous, but bright and various in the types of associative ties - hyperbole, metonymy, analogy and others.