Yulia I. Kildyaeva FGBOU VO "Mordovskii gosudarstvennyi universitet im. N.P. Ogareva", Мордовия Респ
«The poetics of comic in the «The Twelve Chairs» novel (to the problem of a funny word)»
The article deals with the role of a funny word in the comic structure of «The Twelve Chairs» by I. Ilf and E. Petrov. The researcher reveals its different functions taking into account authors’ strategy, directed to the creation of a special type of comic.