Introducing componential analysis into a Russian language course

The ability to accurately express thoughts and feelings is formed by students most successfully when they have developed an attention to the semantics of any textual meaning of the word and its collocational patterns. This article shows how students can master the techniques of a componential analysis of lexical units. Highlighting not only core, peripheral, specific, species, connotative, potential and probability components, but also modified and actual, uncharged (inactive) and significant, induced and supported, or charged and muted, explicit and implicit, antonymous and evaluative components extend the boundaries of using componential analysis. The study and description of the content words indicate the possibility of componential variation in the structure of words meanings.