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The article analyzes the theoretical aspects of communication strategies, tactics, and actions; it determines that laughter as a non-verbal “sign” of communication in the structure of the text is a communicatively oriented strategic concept, which is implemented in communication tactics and actions by means of language (tactics of manipulation, concealment of information, denial, threats); it determines their role in shaping implicitness in the process of artistic communication; in predicting interpersonal communication in the structure of the artistic whole, and in strengthening the general textual strategy verbalized by the characters.