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The author researches the “Odessa language” as a specific discourse of
play character. Some aspects of similarity between the “Odessa 
language” and language of children, and also between the “Odessa 
discourses” and sophistic discourses are shown. The article proves that 
the “Odessa language” has a high potential of the creative thinking. This 
potential is formed by the optic change of object viewing and by the 
deconstruction of trivial semantics. Such a type of thinking can be reified 
in the creative activity (with no relation to the moral values) that can be 
demonstrated by the laughter culture, artistic and scientific creativity and 
also by the political speculations. From the phenomenological point of 
view, the “Odessa language” is aimed at the intellectual agon. It allows 
us to postulate the “winning intention” of the corresponding type of 
thinking. If we apply to the Odessa humor the methodologies of the three 
main laughter concepts – the Superiority Theory, the Incongruity Theory
and the Relief Theory – we can see that the Odessa laughter discourse 
can illustrate all three concepts, thus defining them not as universal but 
mutually complimentary methodological strategies.