ROLLE DER UMSETZUNG VON HUMOR IN DEM MEDIZINISCHEN DISKURS

The article deals with the issues of effective verbal communication in medical discourse with professional tactics and slang as principal conditions. In the light of empathy is the role of humour is identified as conducive to establishing «specialist–nonspesialist» confidential relations within medical discourse. It is stressed, that humorous components participate in slang's word-formation, which has its own benefits.