Abstract
The article identifies laughter as a universal means of regulating social distance and promoting the birth of new forms and contents of social interaction. At the same time, laughter is analyzed in its performativity, in the higher manifestations of which the truth of being-being manifests itself, including the being-being of people in certain hierarchical, horizontal, symmetrical or asymmetrical social positions. The article reveals the social functions of laughter, associated with the establishment or loss, confirmation or refutation of a certain social distance as a physical embodiment of the spiritual relationship between people. Some typical situations of laughter are associated with possible types of social distancing, or rather – with social practices, each of which requires a certain social distance, more or less close. Laughter is based on the existing structure of social relations, with their possible figuration, transformation, creation – using physical and spiritual contact, but without rigid subordination to them, but through their interpretation in the game mode of free realization of human desire for social communication in all its manifestations. Laughter appears as a social message and as a signal of this message receiving, it can act as an effective indicator, and at the same time become significant content if necessary.
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