Jokes aside: the genre of anecdote as a practice of comic

The article is devoted to the analysis of the genre of anecdote on the topics of migrants, migration policy, the relationship between migrants and non-migrants, migrants and government agencies. As a genre of oral folk art, the genre of anecdote is characterized by the fact that not just relevant - topical - information is processed creatively and promptly, while serious problems are clothed in a figurative, lively, light form. This kind of discursive practice is also characterized by the fact that it is a kind of symbolic textual oxymoron. Due to the fact that the anecdote combines the incongruous - the depth and "intensity" of the real problem and the ease of the "anecdotal" approach to it - the significance of the real problem itself seems to fade, obscured. This also happens because the "comic" - humor, joke, "joke", mockery - at least for a minute manages to help a person who seeks to rise above the complex problems of life and "attract" to himself, to his field of meanings, a person telling a joke and a Person listening to him, that, in turn, it leads to a decrease in the internal tension of both. The article also analyzes such general scientific concepts as: Other, anthropological practice, comic and others.