Rudenko N. Functional-semantic Description of Lexical Group "non-physical influence on human being".

The object is Russian lexical group "non-physical influence on human being". The aim is functional-semantic description of Russian lexical group "non-physical influence on human being" as the constituents of lexical-semantic system of Russian. The methods are sampling, oppositions, linguistic experiment, componential analysis; componential synthesis; the context analysis; system approach; functional approach. The dissertation is devoted to functional-semantic description of Russian lexical group "non-physical influence on human being" from a position of linguistic functionalism. We have studied and described the peculiarities of functional approach in modern linguistics. The specificity of functionalism as methodology is defined in the work. It allows to study the object not from the point of view of its constitution, but from the point of view of its predestination. The existence of investigated group on different levels of a language (level of language abstraction, level of types and level of speech)is described. Application spheres are the training courses and lexicographic practice.