The article studies the correlation of semantics and pragmatics of utterance absurdization as required to actualize the author's illocution goal. Specific types of language anomalies are specified: semantic contamination, semantic randomness, semantic substitution, semantic shift and semantic distortion. According to syntax composition and speech forms three main types of absurd text are singled out: absurd narration, absurd description and absurd discussion. The key tactics of logical pragmatic absurd within two basic ways of expressing pragmatic characteristics are determined: breach of logical links and semantic distortion. It is concluded that there are inconsistencies in the pragmatics of absurd statements with the impossibility of a purely rational understanding and interpretation of the communicative act as a whole. The main ways of violating the stereotypical picture of the world within the framework of the absurdity of utterances are recognized: distortion of the semantics of images, violation of the semantics of space-time coordinates, ridiculing the misunderstanding of counter-communicants, the implementation of the conflict of uncertainty and ambivalent of the key concept. Linguistic absurdity from the standpoint of cognitive linguistics can also be considered an auxiliary mechanism for the study of value pictures of the world, the general generalized conceptual and valeur system of the linguistic cultural community.