Abstract

Comparison of the O. Freudenberg and W. Propp Semiotic laugh Concepts has shown that both authors link it with the deep world-outlook categories of ultimate bases. But if O. Freudenberg performs the analysis in the framework of her own holistic Primitive consciousness metaphors Concept, Propp borrowed her basic ideas about the ritualized laughter and takes a controversial stance, abandoning his own basic postulate that any tale reflects a lot of sociohistorical reality or rites and arguing that the Princess Never Laughs tale does not contain any trace of real life, except hierosgamos, when her laugh is only a signal for each new partner to fuck her – by these way she was trying to select a better future husband for herself.