title: «Children’s» Jokes as a Means and a Way to Maintain the Collective&#x0D;Identity of NativeLanguage Speakers within a Culture
abstract: The article is devoted to the description of the functional potential of one of the ways of socialization of native language speakers within a culture, namely «children’s» jokes in the German culture. These types of text are characterized by obvious&#x0D; cultural specifics, objectified not so much through the environment of functioning and the implementation of the corresponding functions by various means and methods,&#x0D; but through their main characters. The focus of the analysis is on Frit
journal: Izvestia of Smolensk State University