Phraseological Representation of the Concept of «Abuse»in the Russian Language

The subject of the study in the article is the peculiarities of the semantics of phraseological units, which can be attributed to the representatives of such a new borrowed concept as «abuse». The purpose of the article is to describe the corpus of units of the phraseological system of the Russian language, revealing the semantic scope of the concept denoted by the lexeme «abuse». The study was carried out on the material of 133 units taken from modern phraseological dictionaries and qualified as linguistic means of nominating the socio-psychological phenomenon of abuse. As a result of the application of the method of semantic analysis, 3 groups of phraseological representatives of the concept of «abuse» were identified: «Psychological violence» (dominant semes in the structure of phraseological meaning: 'torment', 'bother', 'disturb', 'demand', 'pursue', 'scare', 'confuse'), «Physical violence» (dominant semes: 'exploit', 'crack down', 'subjugat') and «Economic violence» ('appropriate', 'ruin'). It is noted that the social and psychological phenomenon of abuse in the Russian language has a wide objectification by phraseological means, which we note within the framework of a more capacious linguocognitive category – «Attitude». The functioning of phraseological units with similar semantics is typical for family, friendly, work and school discourses that define different spheres of interpersonal and social relationships